McLaughlin v. O'Byrne

Citations

• 113 Miss. 335
• 74 So. 274

Syllabus

<p>1. Bxeoxjtobs AND Administbators. Accounting. Solicitors fee. Al-. loioance.</p> <p>The allowance of a fee of one thousand dollars to the solicitor for the administrator of an estate, consisting of a hank deposit of about four thousand dollars and a note of one thousand dollars, who is not called upon to perform any unusual labor nor to advise on any complicated questions of law or fact is excessive.</p> <p>2. Executors and Administrators. Control of chancellor.</p> <p>An administrator is always under the control of the chancellor who in theory, is the administrator charged with the duty to see that the agent of the court executes' his trust in the interest of the beneficiaries thereof.</p>