CONCORD NAT. BANK v. HAVERHILL

No. 4677.

101 N.H. 416 (1958)

CONCORD NATIONAL BANK, Trustee v. HAVERHILL & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided October 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sulloway, Hollis, Godfrey & Soden for the plaintiff, furnished no brief.

Harold K. Davison for the defendant town of Haverhill, furnished no brief.

Luigi J. Castello for the defendant town of Bath, furnished no brief.

Cotton, Tesreau & Stebbins and William R. Johnson (Mr. Johnson orally), for the defendant trustees of Dartmouth College.

Ernest R. D'Amours, Director of Charitable Trusts, pro se.


KENISON, C. J.

In this jurisdiction the allowance of attorneys' fees has developed slowly and generally speaking has not been as liberal as in our neighboring states. Kimball v. Bible Society, 65 N.H. 139, 160; Guay v. Association, 87 N.H. 216, 221, 222; Richter, Probate Fees: The Story of a Remedial Statute, 32 B. U. L. Rev. 54, 60 (1952). Counsel fees were not allowed in Borchers v. Taylor, 83 N.H. 564, 572, but in that...

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