MATTER OF ESTATE OF SIMON

No. 63474.

288 N.W.2d 549 (1980)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Cecelia C. SIMON, Deceased. Hubert K. SIMON and Margaret Crane, Appellants, v. R. Richard BITTNER and First Trust & Savings Bank, Executors, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert K. Simon, Yonkers, N. Y., for appellants.

Robert D. Lambert of Betty, Neuman, McMahon, Hellstrom & Bittner, Davenport, for appellees.

Considered by REES, P. J., and UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, ALLBEE, and McGIVERIN, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the propriety of the amount of a fee allowed an individual who served as an attorney for the executors and as co-executor of the decedent's estate. See §§ 633.197, 633.198, The Code 1979. The first of those sections provides:

Personal representatives shall be allowed such reasonable fees as may be determined by the court for services rendered, but not in...

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