Bronson, Jones & Bronson v. Peabody

This is an appeal from a judgment allowing to respondents twenty-five thousand dollars, with interest from July 1, 1929, as their fees earned as the attorneys for the executors of the estate of Charles E. Peabody, deceased.

The first error assigned questions both the power and the jurisdiction of the trial court to make the allowance. This question must be first disposed of, for if appellants’ position be maintained, we need go no further.

Charles E. Peabody died in August, 1926, leaving a non-intervention will in which Harriet Lilly Macaulay Peabody was named as executrix and Alexander…