In re the Estate of Coutts

Wingate, S.

An architect’s remuneration is customarily based on a percentage of the cost of the completed building under his charge. A claim by such a person to be paid in full, when only the first and second stories were finished, coupled with the assertion that a like sum would be due when the third story and roof were completed, would receive scant recognition by the courts.

Although such a case is by no means parallel to the rights asserted by the fiduciaries in this estate, analysis will demonstrate that the analogy is not so remote as might be judged at first glance.

Here the fiduciaries…