MATTER OF TOWNSEND


24 A.D.2d 93 (1965)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Harold S. Lazar, as Committee of the Person and Property of Harry T. Townsend, Jr., an Incompetent Person, Respondent, William J. Driver, as Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Appellant; Lorraine D. Miller, Respondent

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

November 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie M. Colton of counsel (Frank Klipper, attorney), for appellant.

Harold S. Lazar, respondent in person.

BOTEIN, P. J., McNALLY and STEUER, JJ., concur in Per Curiam opinion; EAGER, J., concurs in opinion in which BREITEL, J., concurs.


Per Curiam.

Upon settlement of the final account of the committee of the person and property of an incompetent, hospitalized veteran, the committee, an attorney, has been awarded $450 for legal services, and compensation of $350 has been granted the guardian ad litem. Appellant, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, contends that the former of these allowances should be eliminated and the latter reduced. We agree...

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