Von Holt v. Williamson

Citations

• 23 Haw. 245
• 1916 Haw. LEXIS 19

Syllabus

<p>Trusts — allowance of attorneys’ fees.</p> <p>Where in a controversy over the income of the corpus of a trust estate it is adjudged that such income is a separate trust arising by operation of law in favor of one of the claimants, costs and expenses of such claimants, including attorneys’ fees, incurred in a suit to settle such controversy, are not allowable out of the principal or corpus of the trust estate.</p> <p>Same — same.</p> <p>An unsuccessful claimant to a certain fund of a trust estate is not entitled to costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, out of the corpus of the trust estate.</p>