SUCCESSION OF BENTON

No. 8715.

354 So.2d 721 (1978)

Succession of Waldtraut Hilda Von Den Brincken, wife of William Joseph BENTON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 11, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garon, Brener & McNeely, Jackson P. McNeely, Milton E. Brener, New Orleans, for Mrs. Astrid Walsh and Adeline Von Den Brincken, appellants.

Dudley Yoedicke, in pro per., As Testamentary Designated Attorney and Testamentary Executor for the Succession of Waldtraut Hilda Von Den Brincken, appellee.

Before GULOTTA, BEER and BOWES, JJ.


GULOTTA, Judge.

In this succession proceeding, we are confronted with two issues: 1) whether an attorney appointed in the decedent's will both as executor and also as attorney for the estate is entitled to attorney's fees in addition to an executor's fee; and 2) whether the value of stock included in the descriptive list of the assets is inflated over the fair market value of the stock as of the date of death of the decedent.

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