In Re Estate of Higgins

This is an appeal from an order made on the application of certain attorneys under section 1616 of the Code of Civil Procedure fixing the sum of two thousand dollars as their compensation for extraordinary legal services in resisting a contest before probate of the will of deceased, and directing the payment of the same by the executor of the will from the moneys in his” hands belonging to the estate.

The deceased left an estate consisting entirely of community property. He left surviving him his wife, Phoebe B. Higgins, a daughter, Cornelia B. Chick, and two sons, Albert E. Hig gins and…