61 N.J. Eq. 668
Decided June 18, 1900
Supreme Court of New Jersey · decided 1900-06-18
This is an application to settle counsel fees and fix the commission of the executor. On the hearing the court disposed of the matter of counsel fees and fixed the sum of $500 as a reasonable compensation for the counsel of the executor, and allowed to the counsel of the heirs on this accounting the sum of $150 each. The estate in this case, according to the account, amounted to $1,197,501.57 of personal property.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently July 1925
2 state decisions
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Decided 1900-06-18
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¶1The decree appealed/ from was made originally in the Essex county orphans court, and is affirmed, for the reasons given by Mr. Justice Fort-in his opinion filed in the orphans court.
¶2For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chiee-Justice, Van Syckel, Dixon, Collins, Port, Garretson, Hendrickson, Bogert, Adams, Vredenburgh, Voorhees—12.
¶3For reversal—None.