Ramey v. Bass

The only question presented by this appeal is whether, in a partition suit, the court should have allowed the attorney for plaintiffs an attorney’s fee and taxed it as costs against all the interested parties to the action, as authorized under § 10531 of Pope’s Digest. This section provides: “Hereafter in all suits in any of the courts of this State for partition of lands when a judgment is rendered for partition, it shall be lawful for the court rendering such judgment or decree to allow a reasonable fee to the attorney bringing such suit, which attorney’s fee shall be taxed as part of the…