Mims v. Hunt County

CARVER, Justice.

From a judgment granting a limited guardianship of the person and estate of Joe Allen Petty, Petty’s attorney, Christopher W. Mims, prosecutes this appeal in his own behalf complaining that the trial court failed to include in its judgment an award to Mims of an attorney’s fee against Hunt County, Texas. Mims contends that since Petty was unable to pay, Hunt County became ‘responsible’ for his fee under section 130G of the Probate Code (Vernon 1980). We affirm because Mims’ right to sue the county was conditioned that (and the record fails to show) Mims had first presented his…