Bird v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “[The predecessor statute], which authorizes executors to pay attorneys’ fees and the probate court to allow such fees in the executors’ accounts, does not authorize the probate court to order executors to pay the fees.... [T]he probate court is without jurisdiction to compel an executor or administrator to pay a claim asserted against a decedent’s estate.... If the executor or administrator contests the claim, the probate court’s order approving it is “deprived of even evidential support.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Poe v. Noble