In re the Estate of McDonald

Cross appeals from an order and decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Broome County, entered October 5, 1979 and November 30,1979, which granted respondent’s claim against the estate. Decedent William McDonald was a New York attorney who shared ofiice space from 1967 to 1977 in respondent Paul T. Gorman’s law offices in Binghamton, New York. No particular billing system was maintained for the sharing of the office overhead and the attorneys apparently paid respondent for their share of the expenses on an irregular basis. Until 1974, decedent made sporadic payments in varying amounts to…