Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. v. Buckingham

This case comes before us on the appeal of the executor of Miles S. Buckingham from a decree of the chancellor fixing the fee pf the executor’s counsel.

The chancellor allowed a fee of $2,000. The executor and its counsel insist that a fee of $4,000 should he allowed. We have discussed the facts of the case in an oral opinion, and it is not necessary to detail them here. It is sufficient to say that counsel rendered valuable services to the estate and that the proof shows a difference of opinion among the lawyers examined as witnesses as to what a proper fee wouM he.

A hill was filed in the…