McChesney v. Knox
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County allowing an attorney’s fee against the estate of decedent. -Joseph H. Budd, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGaroutte, J.
The executor has appealed from an order (of the probate court allowing him for the use of the attorney who had previously represented him in the management of the estate a fee of three thousand dollars. During the progress of the administration the executor asked for a substitution of attorneys. At the hearing of this application, Knox, the previously acting attorney for the executor, appeared and asked the court to make an allowance out of the funds of the estate to the extent of the value of the services he had rendered. A substitution of attorneys was ordered, and subsequently thereto the…
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