Case ID: ny-sup-ct_11/html/0065-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Brady, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of EDWARD SCHELL, Trustee, etc.
    
      Reasonable compensation, to trustee — construction of words — statutory commissions not proper measure.
    
    When the creator of a^trust expressly provides that the trustee shall have a reasonable compensation for his services, the compensation must be determined with reference to the special circumstances of the estate and the services performed. 
    
    The statute regulating the commissions of executors, etc., does, not apply to such a case.
    Appeal from an order made at Special Term, making an allowance to the trustee above named for his services, and confirming the report of .the referee on the accounting before him. The cestui que trust objected to the allowance of $1,500 to the trustee, in addition to an allowance of five per cent for collecting the rents of real estate, and the question presented on this appeal was, whether the allowance was unreasonable.
    
      Wm. C. Traphagen and Enoch L. Fancher, for the trustee.
    
      B. F. Dunning, for the appellant.
    
      
       In the Matter of E. Schell, etc., 53 N. Y., 263.
    
   Opinion by

Brady, J.

Present — Davis, P. J., Brady and Daniels, J J.

Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs besides disbursements.