Marshall v. First National Bank of Lewisburg

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

This is an action for attorneys' fees for the attorneys of the life income beneficiary of a trust. The life income beneficiary had successfully sued to have accumulated stock dividends of the trust paid to him.

In 1977 the appellant as the life income beneficiary of a trust established by the will of his father, probated in 1940, brought suit against the appellee Bank, the trustee named in the trust. The relief sought in that action was the payment as income of stock dividends that had accumulated over the years. The Chancellor denied relief on the ground that the…