ESTATE OF DAVIS


509 A.2d 1175 (1986)

ESTATE OF Linea A. DAVIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided June 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Doyle & Nelson, Jon R. Doyle, (orally), Michael J. LaTorre, Augusta, for B. Harrington and J. Harrington.

MacMichael & Talbot, James MacMichael, (orally), Skowhegan, for Stuart Hayes.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Stephen L. Wessler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for amicus curiae.

Before NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.


WATHEN, Justice.

On a petition to review fees filed by personal representative Stuart E. Hayes, the Somerset County Probate Court approved a fee of $44,700 for services as personal representative of the estate of Linea A. Davis. Benjamin D. Harrington, Sr., and James B. Harrington, Jr., residual beneficiaries under the will of Linea Davis, appeal the Probate Court's order, challenging the reasonableness of the fee, which Hayes admitted was based on a fixed percentage...

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