In re the Accounting of Lazar

Upon settlement of the final account of the committee of the person and property of an incompetent, hospitalized veteran, the committee, an attorney, has been awarded $450 for legal services, and compensation of $350 has been granted 'the guardian ad litem. Appellant, the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, contends that the former of these allowances should be eliminated and the latter reduced. We agree.

The committee was substituted for a prior committee on January 24, 1957. His petition shows receipts of $7,698.36, including $3,945.22 received from his predecessor, disbursements of…