In re the Estate of Potts
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Hubbs, P. J.:
This is an appeal from a decree of the surrogate allowing claimants’ claim for attorney fees at $80,000, of which amount the executor had paid $50,000.
Ida C. Potts died on November 19, 1921, leaving a will. Stephen F. Avery and two others were named as executors, one of whom died before the testatrix. Another, Fred B. Horton, died in June, 1922, leaving Avery as sole surviving executor. On November 21, 1921, two days after the death of the testatrix, Chace Brothers and It. N. Herzberg of Hudson, N. Y., were retained by the executors as attorneys in the management of the estate.…
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