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IN RE ESTATE OF ROGERS

13 N.J. 508 (1953)

100 A.2d 527

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HENRY WELSH ROGERS, DECEASED.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided November 23, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Israel B. Greene argued the cause for the appellant Josephine Chesney McCann (Messrs. Greene & Hellring, attorneys).

Mr. Emory C. Risley argued the cause for the respondents, The Trustees of Princeton University and the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Messrs. Stryker, Tams & Horner, attorneys).

Mr. George S. Fischler argued the cause for the respondents, Alfred C. Clapp and Morristown Trust Company, substituted administrators c.t.a. of the estate of Henry Welsh Rogers, and substituted trustees under his will.

The opinion of the court was delivered by BURLING, J.

This appeal brings before this court the narrow issue of the propriety of an allowance of corpus commissions to fiduciaries in the matter of the estate of Henry Welsh Rogers, deceased. The allowance was incorporated in a judgment of the Essex County Court, Probate Division, entered on June 25, 1953. The life tenant of the estate, Josephine Chesney McCann, filed the appeal in the Superior Court, Appellate...

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