Habberton v. Habberton
Appellate Court of Illinois
Partition of Real Property.—Appeal from a decree allowing solicitor’s fees in partition. Entered by the Circuit Court of Wabash County; the Hon. Edmund D. Youngblood, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Scofield
delivered the opinion óf the Court.
This is an appeal from a decree of the, Circuit Court of Wabash County, allowing a.solicitor’s fee of $450 in favor of appellee’s (complainant’s) solicitor, William T. Bonham, in a suit by appellee against appellants for the partition of certain real estate. Appellants insist that the Circuit Court erred in allowing this fee, and in apportioning the same among the owners of the real estate partitioned.
Under the statute, the solicitor’s fee in partition proceedings shall not be apportioned among the parties, if the bill or…
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