Court Opinion

ID: 9865246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:28:39.352975+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:38:05.240086
License: Public Domain

Mr. Chief Justice Burke,
dissenting.
I am unable to escape the conclusion that there was an abuse of discretion in this case. An $800' funeral for a man who lived as deceased did is unjustifiable. The apparent trivial amount of work performed by the administrator in an estate such as this consisting almost wholly of cash in bank is unreasonable. Some justification can be found for the allowance of attorney’s fees, since apparently everything that was done was done by counsel, but certainly the bounds of law and liberality were crowded. Such an inroad upon the assets of an estate should not be countenanced by the courts irrespective of who are the heirs or where they live.