Kasiski v. International Paper Co.

These appeals, certified on application of the appellant while pending in the Appellate Division (R. R. 1:10-1A), concern the reasonableness of an attorney’s fee allowed by the Morris County Court to petitioner, pursuant to R. R. 5:2-5(f), for services rendered on appeals in a workmen’s compensation action in the County Court, the Appellate Division and this court.

The compensation claim was for dependency benefits as a result of the employee’s death caused by the rupture of a congenital cerebral aneurysm. Such a rupture may come naturally or be brought about by some extrinsic agency. He had…