Legal Opinion
Dent v. Foy
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 10, 1925No. 4 Div. 196, 196APublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.
This appeal is to review a decree fixing and allowing fees of complainants’ attorney in a suit in equity involving the estate of George I-I. Dent, deceased.
Decedent died February 28, 1918, leaving surviving his widow, Helen A. Dent, four children, Warren X. Dent, George -H. Dent, Jr., Louie H. Dent, and Helen Dent Williams, and two grandchildren, Levy W. Eoy and Fred H. Foy, children of a deceased daughter.
The widow qualified as administratrix of the estate March 15, 1918.
On February 28, 1919, the Foy heirs filed a bill in the circuit court of Barbour county, in equity, against the…
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