The Newtown bee., 1893-03-24
IN CONTRASTING THIS CLAIM,

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 MT Peck: I have paid only what is on the books. Lawyer Tweedy then asked MT Daven- port, "Do you claim that this ought to be paid," which brought out most en- phatic ''Yes sir" from Lawyer Daven- port. .+. The items of expenses in the will case were then considered. MT Fessenden's bill was shown to be $7656.50 and the to- tai for attorney fees in this case were figured up at $l7 ,090.
 Mir Davenport then asked, 'Did you pay these sums in the Gregory, Ballou & Co.,, and will case out of the estate" Mir Peck: Yes sir.
 MT Davenport: Did you get any order from the judge of probate.
 MT Peck: No sir.
 Lawyer Fessenden here iuterposed and stated that in the will case the expenses were agreed to by all parties at interest. Mir Davenport again picked up the thread and asked, ''Did you ask the judge of probate as to the reasonableness of these amounts?'
 Mir Peck: No sir.
 MT Davenport: Did these gentlemen render you itemized bills for these amounts? Did the attorneys in the will case present an itemized bill?
 MT Peck: don't think they did.
 MT Davenport Now, MT Peck, you seem to have paid out considerable amount of money to these attorneys. Did you make any agreement with them as to what they should charge?
 Mir Peck No sir.
 Mir Davenport: Why didn't you.
 MT Peck: I've settled a good many es- tates and I hadn't been in the habit of it. Mir Davenport: Didn't you know it was your duty to make report to the judge of probate as to the condition of the es- tate?
 Mr Peck: I knew it was in trusteeship. I didn't know it was in executorship.
 Mir Davenport: Did you make any payment to Mrs Bronson?
 MT Peck: Yes sir. I paid her what the commissioners allowed.
 Mir Davenport: Now, MT Peck, have you invested any of the money of the es. tate?
 MT Peck: Only in savings ba 1ks.
 MT Davenport: You haven't invested any money in the West.
 MT Peck: No money has been invested out of the state.
 Mir Davenport: Have you
 PAID ANY MONEY to Mir Nettleton at St Paul?
 Mir Peck: Only his travelling expense! as witness in the will case.
 MT Davenport: Have you an itemizet bill?
 MT Peck: Yes sir.
 MT Davenport: How many days wa that will case on trial?
 MT Peck: I don't know as could tel without thinking it over.
 MT Davenport: Don't you know?
 MT Peck: I think it occupied as man. as 2l days. I won't be certain.
 Mir Davenport: Have you any data b. which you can tell.
 MT Peck, after consulting memoranda concluded it was 16 days.
 MT Davenport: Sixteen days and 70, had three attorneys and paid out $17, ,000
 MT Peck: Yes sir.
 Mir Davenport: Do you owe Mir Twee dy any amount for services since the bil was rendered? I MT Peck: I think do.
 MT Davenport: Have you any ide how much you owe him?
 MT Peck: No sir.
 Mir Davenport: Have you ascertaine, from Mr Beecher how much you ow him?
 MT Peck: No sir. MT O'Hara: Did you know, Mir Peck that Mir Tweedy had been employed b. Mr Booth before his death? 1 Mir Peck: Yes sir.
 MT O'Hara: When did you retain M Fessenden in the Gregory & Ballou case
 Mir Peck: In January, 1892.
 MT O'Hara: Do you know when tn trial of the Gregory < Ballou case term mated before the commissioners? l Lawyer Tweedy: March 3, 1892. \ MT O'Hara: The trial had about tel minated. MT Peck think so. 1 Mir O'Hara; Nothing but the arg, ments remained. II MT Davenport: MT Fessenden didn argue the case. What did you emplo him for? Il MT Peck: Because I had right to. J Mir Davenport: You paid him $lOO; l neither argued the case or appeared b l fore the commissioners. Then
 BEFORE THE CASE 2 was ended, you had determined to CT . ploy Mir Fessenden if the case was a pealed. MT Peck: In case it was appealed, have him assist me, if wanted him. Mir Fessenden here raised a laugh by Joking remark, which caused MT O'Ha to exclaim, sYou can't laugh this ca out of court.' Mir Davenport: Did you ever infol the heirs of this estate the amount money you was expending. t Mir Peck told MT Brinsmade.