Tanner v. Tanner

This controversy is over the allowance of a fee to the attorneys of plaintiff in a partition suit.

It seems that in 1914, one, John Harrison Tanner, died intestate, owning 160 acres of land in Chariton county, and leaving only three heirs, namely, Charles Monroe Tanner, the plaintiff herein, and the two defendants Enos Marion Tanner and Bertha Tanner Peterson..No administrator was applied for or appointed upon his estate, and in 1916, Mark A. Magrudér and John D. Taylor, attorneys, were employed by the plain*146tiff, Charles Monroe Tanner, to bring suit to partition the lands of which said John…