In re the Accounting of Brehm

Appellants, attorneys for the administrator of the Brehm estate, are appealing from the Surrogate’s decree which fixed their allowance for legal services at $1,400, which is one half of the requested amount. The total amount of the estate is $76,375.70. Letters of administration were issued in December of 1967. Legal services were rendered the estate for about a year and a half, including all the regular matters, such as ascertaining the distributees and securing the appointment of the administrator, converting securities and other assets into cash, investigation and payment of debts,…