In re estate of Thompson
New York Supreme Court
THIS is an appeal by Edward G-. Thompson, administrator with the will annexed of Abraham G. Thompson, deceased, from an order made by the surrogate of the county of New York, on the 31st of January, 1863, ordering said administrator to pay to Edward P.. Cowles $2000, with interest from February 27, 1862, and $25 costs.
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THIS is an appeal by Edward G-. Thompson, administrator with the will annexed of Abraham G. Thompson, deceased, from an order made by the surrogate of the county of New York, on the 31st of January, 1863, ordering said administrator to pay to Edward P.. Cowles $2000, with interest from February 27, 1862, and $25 costs. Cowles recovered a judgment Februaiy 27,1862, in the supreme court, against Edward G. Thompson as such administrator, for $2000. The judgment not being paid, Cowles applied to the surrogate by petition, and obtained from him an order or citation, requiring said administrator to…
1Opinion of the Court
0 Leonard, J.
The surrogate has ordered the administrator of the estate of Abraham G-. Thompson, deceased, to pay to Edward P. Cowles the amount of a judgment recovered by *253him in the supreme court against the said administrator, after a trial at law on the merits, for services rendered by him as proctor and counsel for Henry Sheldon, the former executor of the said estate, in the administration thereof, amounting to two thousand dollars.
This recovery adjudges that the services in question constitute actual, necessary, just and reasonable expenses of the administration which must be borne by…
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