Flangas v. Herrmann

*3OPINION

This appeal challenges an order of the Ninth Judicial District Court entered by Judge Howard McKibben, which purported to award appellant Peter L. Flangas and his co-counsel John Tom Ross the sum of $6,000 as attorneys’ fees for services rendered in the Estate of Walter Herrmann, instead of the sum of $70,000 which Judge Richard Waters had previously awarded to them by a judgment duly and lawfully entered.1 Because Judge McKibben lacked jurisdiction to ignore the final judgment that Judge Waters had rendered with complete propriety, we reverse the order entered by Judge McKibben.

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