In Re Estate of Wirebaugh

This case is before the court on appeal from a judgment of the Wood County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division. Appellant and cross-appellee, Louis E. Wirebaugh, the executor of the estate of Walter R. Wirebaugh, appeals the trial court’s award of attorney fees to appellee, B. Laurene Lea, and appellee and cross-appellant, Helen L. Ziegler.

Louis Wirebaugh, Lea and Ziegler are the children of Walter R. Wirebaugh and beneficiaries under the latter’s last will and testament. Lea and Ziegler filed exceptions to the inventory of the estate of Walter R. Wirebaugh and alleged that Louis…