WILLIAMS ESTATE


415 Pa. 273 (1964)

Williams Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 31, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Ginsburg, for appellant.

Thomas N. Griggs, with him Donald C. Bush, John Stewart, Jr., Robert W. Duggan, and Griggs, Moreland, Blair & Douglass, for appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION PER CURIAM.

The substantial question before this Court is whether the orphans' court award of fees to special counsel was excessive and therefore constituted an abuse of discretion.

The guardians of an adjudicated incompetent retained special counsel to institute an action against certain persons for fraud in connection with the purchase by those persons from the incompetent of certain securities owned by her. Special counsel brought suit in 1958,...

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