In re the Estate of Daly

Cohalan, S.

Upon the exceptions filed to the referee's report arise questions of the construction and operation of section 2753 of the Code of Civil Procedure in regard to an allowance of compensation to an executor for legal services rendered by him to the estate, prior to the d.a.te when section 2753 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1914, became effective.

The late Judge Joseph F. Daly acted as executor of this estate from 1899 until his death in 1916, subsequent to the hearings herein before the referee. It is claimed that as “ an attorney and counselor-at-law of this state” he…