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Matter of Chieffo

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 17, 1949
274 App. Div. 1061 (N.Y. App. Div. 1949)

Opinion

January 17, 1949.

Present — Nolan, P.J., Carswell, Johnston, Wenzel and MacCrate, JJ.


Decree of the Surrogate's Court of the County of Suffolk, which, among other things, fixed the fee of the administratrix' discharged attorney and granted him a lien for such fee upon certain papers and proceeds, modified on the law and the facts by inserting the word "not" immediately before the words "include a life insurance policy in the sum of $3,000.00" in the second ordering paragraph; by striking from the second ordering paragraph the following passages which appear further therein: "the insurance policy on said Anthony Chieffo or", and "so delivered by said John J. Broderick to Rose Chieffo"; and by striking from the third ordering paragraph the following: "cover and include the disbursements of said John J. Broderick which the Court hereby fixes and allows in the sum of $1,250.00; as his fees which are hereby fixed and allowed in said sum of $1,250.00", and by substituting in lieu thereof the following: "be in the amount of $150.00, which is hereby fixed and allowed as the fee of said John J. Broderick." As so modified, the decree is unanimously affirmed, without costs. No opinion.


Summaries of

Matter of Chieffo

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 17, 1949
274 App. Div. 1061 (N.Y. App. Div. 1949)
Case details for

Matter of Chieffo

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Estate of ANTHONY CHIEFFO, Deceased. ROSE CHIEFFO, as…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jan 17, 1949

Citations

274 App. Div. 1061 (N.Y. App. Div. 1949)

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