Merkel v. Long

*217On Rehearing.

Souris, J.

(for affirmance in part and reversal in part). In Merkel v. Long (1963), 372 Mich 144, Mr. Chief Justice Carr, writing for himself and for three present members of this Court, concluded that a chancellor may order trustees to pay out of the funds of the trust estates the reasonable fees of the attorneys representing petitioning parties in a Dodge act proceeding for the services they rendered their clients. For authority, the Chief Justice relied squarely upon the doctrine of Trustees v. Greenough (1881), 105 US 527 (26 L ed 1157), and Sprague v. Ticonic National Bank…