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IN RE ESTATE OF BAKER

485 Pa. 218 (1979)

401 A.2d 737

In re ESTATE of Walter H. BAKER, Deceased, Fourth and Final Account of William G. Stewart, Successor Individual Trustee, and the Union National Bank of Pittsburgh, Surviving Trustee, under the trust for Wilma L. Baker, Deceased, now Garrett B. LeVan, succeeding life tenant under Paragraph Sixth (C). APPEAL of Garrett J. LeVAN, Peter H. LeVan, Andrea LeVan Kinney and Katharine LeVan Aspen.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. McCune, Washington, James W. Frey, Hoppe, Frey, Hewitt & Milligan, Warren, Ohio, pro hac vice, for appellant.

Robert F. Patton, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle & Buerger, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, MANDERINO and LARSEN, JJ.

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

The single issue presented by this appeal1 is whether the chancellor's award of counsel fees to attorneys for the corporate trustee of a testamentary trust was in such an amount as to constitute abuse of discretion by the chancellor. We find no abuse of discretion and, therefore, affirm the decree.

As set forth by the chancellor, the factual background of the testamentary trust which appellee represented...

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