New York Surrogate's Court, 1933

In re the Estate of Lydig

In re the Estate of Lydig
New York Surrogate's Court · Decided May 15, 1933 · Foley
149 Misc. 598; 269 N.Y.S. 888; 1933 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1793

Counsel

Stewart & Shearer, for the United States Trust Company of New York, executor, etc., of the decedent., Abram Glaser, special guardian for infants Julia D. McIlvaine and Diana McIlvaine, appellants., Henry B. Closson, for Elizabeth Ellen Richardson and others, appellants., Joseph Potts, for Tompkins, McIlvaine and others, appellants., Evarts, Choate, Sherman & Leon, for Edward P. and Mary P. Beckwith, as executors, etc., respondents., Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, for the Lenox Library-Association, respondent., Harrison, Elliott & Byrd, for the Society of St. Johnland and others, respondents., Barry, Wainwright, Thacher & Symmers, for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, respondent., Gerald Donovan, for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, respondent., Jackson, Fuller, Nash & Brophy, for the St. Luke’s Home for Aged Women, respondent., George H. Fox, for the St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, Inc., and Bide-a-Wee Home Association, Inc., respondents., George N. Whittlesey, for the Children’s Aid Society, respondent., Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, for the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, respondent., King, Barr & Robbins, for the St. Luke’s Hospital in the City of New York, respondent., Walter W. Law, for the Little Missionary’s Day Nursery, respondent., Butler, Wyckoff & Reid, for the Stuyvesant Square Hospital, etc., respondent., Sage & Schoonmaker, for the Young Men’s Christian Association of the City of New York, respondent., Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap, for the Young Women’s Christian Association of the City of New York, respondent., Zabriskie, Sage, Gray & Todd, for the Prison Association of New York, respondent., Olvany, Eisner & Donnelly, for the Honor Emergency Fund of the Fire Department of the City of New York, respondent., Armin H. Mittlemann, for James Eckford DeKay.

In re the Estate of Lydig

Opinion of the Court

Foley, S.

Costs taxed. No allowance for counsel fees after appeal can be made except to an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee. (Surr. Ct. Act, § 278.) In my opinion the provision of section 278, authorizing the surrogate to make an allowance for counsel fees where a construction of a will is involved, applies only to the original decree in such proceeding.

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