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Show BIG FEE FOR A LAWYER'S SERVICE . Chicago, July 7. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is the fee which is demanded and may be paid to Attorney Attor-ney Clarence A. Knight for services, rendered In straightening out the. estate of Charles A. Yerkes, the lato traction magnate. Master-ln-Chancery Granville W. Browning, who was appointed as referee ref-eree by Judge Cutting of the probate pro-bate court, yesterday declared that the fee was Just and not .exorbitant He not only gave it r-s his opinion that Knight was entitled to the full quarter million, but that he well deserved de-served it for honesty and loyal work In recouping the dissipating properties proper-ties following the street car man's death In 1005. Trustees and beneficiaries have been fighting through the courts fT the various possessions left by Yerkes both in the United States and in England. |