Palmetto Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Day

This is an appeal by the plaintiff-mortgagee from a trial court order which awards attorney’s fees to the receiver’s court-appointed attorney in a mortgage foreclosure action. We reverse the order under review and remand the cause for a new evidentiary hearing on the court-appointed attorney’s petition for fees because there was no expert testimony adduced be*333low as to the reasonableness of the claimed attorney’s fees. Instead, the award was based entirely on the testimony of the receiver’s attorney. Plainly, this was fatal to the order under review. See Lewis v. Gramil Corp., 94 So.2d 174,…