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IN RE ESTATE OF WARING

47 N.J. 367 (1966)

221 A.2d 193

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY FLEMING WARING, DECEASED. ALOYSIUS F. SCHAEFFNER AND PLAINFIELD TRUST STATE NATIONAL BANK, EXECUTORS, ETC., ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. BARBARA C. SYKES, ET AL., DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 27, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred C. Clapp argued the cause for the plaintiffs-appellants (Messrs. Clapp & Eisenberg, attorneys).

Mr. Donald B. Kipp argued the cause for the appellant Pitney, Hardin & Kipp (Messrs. Pitney, Hardin & Kipp, attorneys pro se; Mr. William H. Osborne, Jr. and Mr. John Barker, on the brief).

Mr. Harrison F. Durand argued the cause for the defendants-respondents (Messrs. Durand, Twombly & Imbriaco, attorneys).

Mr. Stanley Tannenbaum argued the cause amicus curiae (Messrs. Reibel, Isaac & Tannenbaum, attorneys; Mr. Barry M. Epstein, on the brief).

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

The County Court entered a judgment in October 1965 (amended in January 1966) denying any allowance for the legal services rendered by a New York law firm in connection with the administration of the estate of Dorothy Fleming Waring. Appeals were taken to the Appellate Division and we certified before argument there.

Mrs. Waring, a resident of Plainfield, New Jersey, died testate in March 1963, leaving a...

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