Corsiglia v. Hammersmith

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

The appeal is from a judgment apportioning fees among the executor’s attorneys on the basis of services performed during probate. John Granata died in November 1962. His wife, Filomena, died the following month. Their joint and mutual wills, executed in 1958, named the First National Bank as executor, and suggested the employment of John Gabrielli of Reno, Nevada, and Adon Panattoni and Teresa Corsiglia, partners, of Sacramento, California, as the executor’s attorneys. Gabrielli was elected district court judge, and assumed his judicial duties on the first…