In re the Estate of Combes

OPINION OF THE COURT

C. Raymond Radican, J.

This is an application for attorney’s fees by the executor’s attorney involved in the conservator’s accounting.

The conservatee, Smith A. Combes, died on September 28, 1981 and his conservator was directed to file a final account by an order of Hon. Robert C. Meade, Justice of the Supreme Court, dated October 14, 1981, who referred the matter to the Surrogate as an Acting Supreme Court Justice since related proceedings were pending in the Surrogate’s Court.

An executor for the estate was subsequently appointed by an order of this court. The conservator…