Cummings v. Covey

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Clinton Circuit Court granting a motion brought by the Appellants (hereinafter “Cummings”) for attorney fees. While granting their motion and awarding a fee of $8,000.00, the trial court effectively limited that award by allowing recovery of the fee only from the funds recovered from the Appellee, Peggy Ann Covey (hereinafter “Covey”), pursuant to a judgment already awarded against her in the sum of $3826.00. Finding no error in the circuit court’s ruling, we affirm.

Peggy Ann Covey was appointed executrix of the estate of her mother,…