Davis v. Murphy

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

This is a dispute over an attorney’s fee for services to a minor. The chancellor approved the fee, finding it to be reasonable. We reverse.

Kathy Michelle Davis was a beneficiary of a $7,500 insurance policy on her father’s life. Her father was shot and killed on September 7, 1974. Mary Louise Davis, the child’s mother, who was never married to the father, sought the assistance of the appellee in collecting the insurance proceeds and in being appointed guardian of the child.

The appellee’s version of their initial agreement is that he informed Mrs. Davis that the fee…