MATTER OF GRABOIS


24 N.Y.2d 789 (1969)

In the Matter of Annette G. Grabois, as Committee of the Person and Property of Marian Grosner, Incompetent. Annette G. Grabois et al., Appellants-Respondents; Steptoe & Johnson, Intervenor-Appellant-Respondent; W. Scott Long, Jr., as Guardian ad Litem for Marian Grosner, an Incompetent Person, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 9, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert Rubin and Joel Lieberman for intervenor-appellant-respondent.

Edgar A. B. Spencer for appellants-respondents.

W. Scott Long, Jr., as guardian ad litem for Marian Grosner, an incompetent, respondent-appellant.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, KEATING, BREITEL and JASEN concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order appealed from should be modified, with costs to all parties, by disallowing the award of fees and disbursements to the firm of Steptoe and Johnson and, as modified, affirmed. The law of this State clearly provides that the court in which the trust litigation was conducted is to determine the amount and the source of awards made to the firms who participated in the trust litigation. We refrain from determining...

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