In Re the Estate of Coffin

— The sole question here is whether substantial evidence supports an attorney’s fee allowance made for a nonintervention will executor’s attorneys at a hearing on the executor’s final report and account. The Aquarian Foundation, Inc., the residuary estate beneficiary, appeals contending the amount allowed is excessive.

Miriam Coffin died July 28, 1968. By her nonintervention will, she named Peoples National Bank of Washington as executor and the foundation as residuary beneficiary. The executor employed Messrs. Newman and McCann of Seattle, Washington, as estate attorneys. Mr. McCann had…