In Re Law's Estate

Mason G. Ouderkirk, the nominated executor in the will of Ede E. Law, deceased, filed an application to employ legal counsel, for attorney fees and costs to secure a witness from California, medical testimony, • and the taking of depositions to sustain the will. Appellants resisted on the ground that all devisees and heirs of decedent were adults and all had appeared and pleaded pro or con in the contest. The trial court approved the application to employ legal counsel and ordered “The reasonable cost of the necessary services of said counsel to be paid from the assets of the decedent’s…