Piazza v. Hyman

BYRNES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding a curator ad hoc $1,412.00 in fees for his representation of twelve absent defendants in a> suit to quiet certain tax titles. We affirm.

The sole issue before this court is the amount of the fee. At a hearing on a Rule Nisi to fix the fee, the curator testified and was cross examined concerning his work on behalf of the absent defendants and the time it involved.

We have reviewed the transcript of that hearing and cannot say that the'trial judge’s ruling was an abuse of his discretion under C.C.P. Art. 5096. In determining a curator’s…