In re the Estate of Hallgarten

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

In re the Estate of Hallgarten

130 A.D.2d 749, 515 N.Y.S.2d 720, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 46762

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedMay 26, 1987

StatusPublished

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In re the Estate of Hallgarten, 130 A.D.2d 749, 515 N.Y.S.2d 720, 1987 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 46762 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1987).

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In a proceeding for a judicial settlement of the account of the petitioner, the Public Administrator of Suffolk County, the appeal, as limited by the appellant’s brief, is from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Signorelli, S.), dated August 26, 1986, as reduced the attorney’s fee of the appellant, the attorney for the petitioner in the accounting proceeding, from $22,937.50 to $10,000.

Ordered that the decree is affirmed, with costs.

Under the facts and circumstances of this case, the Surrogate did not abuse his discretion in fixing the appellant’s legal fee at $10,000. Mangano, J. P., Bracken, Niehoff, Kooper and Spatt, JJ., concur.

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In a proceeding for a judicial settlement of the account of the petitioner, the Public Administrator of Suffolk County, the appeal, as limited by the appellant’s brief, is from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County (Signorelli, S.), dated August 26, 1986, as reduced the attorney’s fee of the appellant, the attorney for the petitioner in the accounting proceeding, from $22,937.50 to $10,000.

Ordered that the decree is affirmed, with costs.

Under the facts and circumstances of this case, the Surrogate did not abuse his discretion in fixing the appellant’s legal fee at $10,000. Mangano, J. P., Bracken, Niehoff, Kooper and Spatt, JJ., concur.

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