Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1949

In re the Estate of Chieffo

In re the Estate of Chieffo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 17, 1949
274 A.D. 1061; 85 N.Y.S.2d 920; 1949 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6056
In re the Estate of Chieffo

Opinion of the Court

Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Suffolk, which, among other things, fixed the fee of the administratrix’ discharged attorney and granted him a lien for such fee upon certain papers and proceeds, modified on the law and the facts by inserting the word not ” immediately before the words “ include a life insurance policy in the sum of $3,000.00” in the second ordering paragraph; by striking from the second ordering paragraph the following passages which appear further therein: the insurance policy on said Anthony Chieffo or ”, and so delivered by said John J. Broderick to Rose Chieffo ”; and by striking from the third ordering paragraph the following: "cover and include the disbursements of said John J. Broderick which the Court hereby fixes and allows in the sum of $1,250.09; as *1062his fees which are hereby fixed and allowed in said sum of $1,250.00 ”, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following: “ be in the amount of $150.00, which is hereby fixed and allowed as the fee of said John J. Broderick.” As so modified, the decree is unanimously affirmed, without costs. No opinion. Present — Nolan, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Wenzel and MacCrate, JJ.

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