Murphey v. Dalton

COIL, Commissioner.

This case involves the question of a lawyer’s right to fees payable out of trust assets for services rendered the trustee of a public charitable trust.

In October 1946 Rosa Hesse’s will was admitted to probate in St. Louis. After three $1 bequests, she left the remainder to a trust company and two individuals as trustees (also named executors) to retain and invest the principal until it and accumulated interest amounted to $100,000, at which time the income was to be used for voice training of persons over sixteen and for piano and violin training for younger persons, all of…