Townsend v. Angellotti
California Supreme Court
PETITION for mandamus from the Supreme Court to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Carroll Cook, Judge. F. M. Angellotti, Acting Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
W. L. Pierce, in certain proceedings touching the guardianship of an insane person, had, by order of the superior court and of Hon. Carroll Cook, judge thereof, been allowed the sum of three thousand eight hundred dollars as attorney’s fee, which sum was paid out of the funds of the insane person. Thereafter this petitioner, a party in interest, applied to the superior court for an order: 1. Vacating the order allowing said W. L. Pierce an attorney’s fee of three thousand eight hundred dollars; and 2. Requiring the said Pierce to pay back into the funds of the insane person said…
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