Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of Hannah M. Lydig, Deceased
Court: New York Surrogate's Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1933-05-15
Citations: 149 Misc. 598
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of Hannah M. Lydig, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 149
Pages: 598–599

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Estate of Hannah M. Lydig, Deceased.
Surrogate’s Court, New York County,
May 15, 1933.
Stewart & Shearer, for the United States Trust Company of New York, executor, etc., of the decedent.
Abram Glaser, special guardian for infants Julia D. McIlvaine and Diana McIlvaine, appellants.
Henry B. Closson, for Elizabeth Ellen Richardson and others, appellants.
Joseph Potts, for Tompkins, McIlvaine and others, appellants.
Evarts, Choate, Sherman & Leon, for Edward P. and Mary P. Beckwith, as executors, etc., respondents.
Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, for the Lenox Library-Association, respondent.
Harrison, Elliott & Byrd, for the Society of St. Johnland and others, respondents.
Barry, Wainwright, Thacher & Symmers, for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, respondent.
Gerald Donovan, for the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, respondent.
Jackson, Fuller, Nash & Brophy, for the St. Luke’s Home for Aged Women, respondent.
George H. Fox, for the St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, Inc., and Bide-a-Wee Home Association, Inc., respondents.
George N. Whittlesey, for the Children’s Aid Society, respondent.
Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, for the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, respondent.
King, Barr & Robbins, for the St. Luke’s Hospital in the City of New York, respondent.
Walter W. Law, for the Little Missionary’s Day Nursery, respondent.
Butler, Wyckoff & Reid, for the Stuyvesant Square Hospital, etc., respondent.
Sage & Schoonmaker, for the Young Men’s Christian Association of the City of New York, respondent.
Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap, for the Young Women’s Christian Association of the City of New York, respondent.
Zabriskie, Sage, Gray & Todd, for the Prison Association of New York, respondent.
Olvany, Eisner & Donnelly, for the Honor Emergency Fund of the Fire Department of the City of New York, respondent.
Armin H. Mittlemann, for James Eckford DeKay.
But see Matter of Watson (149 Misc. 235). See, also, 145 id. 321.

Opinion:
Foley, S.
Costs taxed. No allowance for counsel fees after appeal can be made except to an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee. (Surr. Ct. Act, § 278.) In my opinion the provision of section 278, authorizing the surrogate to make an allowance for counsel fees where a construction of a will is involved, applies only to the original decree in such proceeding.
Insert appropriate amounts in order on remittitur and resubmit the same for signature.