MATTER OF UTTER


17 A.D.2d 868 (1962)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Robert C. Utter et al., as Administrators of The Estate of Anna M. Utter, Deceased, Appellants. Joe Schapiro, as Attorney for David B. Utter, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

October 31, 1962


The services alleged by respondent to have benefited the estate were rendered at the request of his own client, one of five distributees of deceased, and in our judgment solely in the protection of his interests and without benefit to the estate. In these circumstances respondent must look to the client for his compensation. (Matter of Bacharach, 12 A.D.2d 938; Matter of Luckenbach, 280 App. Div. 994, affd.

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