In In re Baldwin's Estate, 311 Mich 288; 18 NW2d 827 (1945), an executor incurred attorney fees in defending a challenge to his administration of the estate. The Supreme Court held that, because the fees were not for the direct or indirect benefit of the estate, the trial court erred by not charging those fees to the executor. Id. at 314. However, the Court noted that, had the executor been exonerated of all wrongdoing, "a different conclusion might have been reached." Id.