In re the Trust Estate of Hobron

Citations

• 24 Haw. 753
• 1919 Haw. LEXIS 48

Syllabus

<p>Trusts — expenses—attorney’s fee.</p> <p>H by deed of trust conveyed his property to L as trustee reserving to himself the income from the estate less expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct and management of the trust estate. A vacancy in the trusteeship occurred. Held that an attorney’s fee for services rendered in securing the appointment of a new trustee should he paid out of the income and not out of the corpus of the estate.</p>