In Re the Trust of Spatt

Breitel, J. (dissenting).

It is not necessary or desirable in all cases to require proof of value by expert witness or affiant of a trustee’s or a lawyer’s services. Most such cases are deter*779minable by criteria well-established in decisional law and by canons of professional conduct. In large and especially complicated matters the situation will be different. In this case, the Appellate Division, as well as the nisi prius court, had sufficient evidence in the record before them of the kind, quality, and difficulty of the services rendered by the substituted trustee. They had no need for the…