Huddleston v. Coffman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Greene Circuit Court; Frank Smith, Judge; 1. The act provides for an appeal from the particular questions therein set forth, but does not provide for an appeal from the allowance of attorney’s fees. Kirby’s Dig. § 1428. Only those matters enumerated as appealable in the statute may be appealed.
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Appeal from Greene Circuit Court; Frank Smith, Judge; 1. The act provides for an appeal from the particular questions therein set forth, but does not provide for an appeal from the allowance of attorney’s fees. Kirby’s Dig. § 1428. Only those matters enumerated as appealable in the statute may be appealed. “Bxpressio unitus est exclusió alterius” applies. 45 Ark. 524; 20 Ark. 410; 38 Ark. 205; 34 Ark. 663; 1 Ark. 201; 62 Ark. 595; 99 U. S. 582; 25 L. Ed. 331. ■2. The allowance of attorney’s fees is by the act wholly vested in the sound discretion of the county court. It is therefore not…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
Appellants, at an adjourned term of the county court of Greene County in April, 1908, filed an application for attorney’s fees, which is as follows: “Come Johnson & Burr and Huddleston & Taylor, the heretofore duly appointed, attorneys of record for Eight Mile Drainage District No. Two, and move the court to make to them an allowance fo'r reasonable attorney’s fees as attorneys for said district aforesaid, and in the fixing of said fee they ask that the court hear oral evidence as to what would be a reasonable attorney’s fee in said cause, and for all other proper and needful relief.”
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