Baird v. Woolf

BROWN (Gerald), J.

This is an appeal by Woodrow W. Baird, executor of the estate of Earl H. Briggs, deceased, and C. Duane Mooney, attorney for the executor, from a portion of an order settling the fourth and final account which sustained, in part, objections by beneficiary Esther Woolf to requests for extraordinary executor’s commissions and extraordinary attorney’s fees.

When Briggs died in April 1958 Woodrow Baird, the decedent’s attorney and a legatee under the will, was appointed special administrator. In May 1958 he was appointed executor and letters testamentary were issued.

Briggs had…