In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Maxwell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by James H. Ryan and others from an order of the County Court of Rensselaer county, entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 3d day of May, 1915, settling the accounts of Thomas F. Maxwell, as committee, with notice of an intention to bring up for review an allowance of $1,000 made to the attorney for the respondent, as counsel fee and costs herein.
1Dissent
Woodward, J. (dissenting):
The decree settling the accounts of Thomas F. Maxwell, as committee of the person and estate of John K. Cullin, an incompetent, now deceased, after passing upon the account as stated, provided that the “said Frederick E. Bowen is allowed the sum of $1,000 for his costs in this proceeding.” Mr. Bowen was the attorney of the petitioner, the accounting committee, hut it did not appear from the account of said committee that he had paid to the said Frederick E. Bowen the sum of $1,000 for any services rendered in behalf of the estate, the court merely assuming to make…
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