Case Name: In the Matter of Louise Snyder, an Incompetent Person, Now Deceased, by Max Feigin, Committee of the Said Louise Snyder, and Attorney for Said Committee, Appellant, v. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1967-04-27
Citations: 27 A.D.2d 927
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Louise Snyder, an Incompetent Person, Now Deceased, by Max Feigin, Committee of the Said Louise Snyder, and Attorney for Said Committee, Appellant, v. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 927–927

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Louise Snyder, an Incompetent Person, Now Deceased, by Max Feigin, Committee of the Said Louise Snyder, and Attorney for Said Committee, Appellant, v. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.

Opinion:
In this proceeding to settle the final account of the committee of a deceased person the committee, also an attorney, appeals from so much of an order entered October 20, 1966 as denied him an additional fee for services rendered and limited his compensation to the statutory commissions. In our opinion the services rendered were in excess of those normally or usually performed by an executor or administrator and appellant should be allowed a reasonable sum as additional compensation (Mental Hygiene Law, § 109, subd. (1); Matter of Belaquer, 19 A D 2d 841). The order appealed from is unanimously modified, on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion, to grant and allow appellant the sum of $1,000 as and for a legal fee and for disbursements incurred, payable out of the estate of the incompetent, and by modifying accordingly the second decretal paragraph of said order. As so modified the order appealed from is otherwise affirmed, without costs or disbursements to either party. It is clear that the sum received was not adequate to compensate appellant, an attorney, for the services rendered (cf. Matter of Townsend, 24 A D 2d 93, concurring opinion Eager, J.). Concur — Botein, P. J., Stevens, Tilzer, McNally and McGivern, JJ.