Troy v. Johnson

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GUNDRUM, J.

Cross-Appellants Eric Hurk-man, Richard McGeehan, and Timothy Wrzesinski appeal the probate court's denial of their individual requests for attorney fees and costs from the estate of Harold Hartshorne related to the real property date-of-death valuation the personal representatives used in the inventory, interim accounting, and federal real estate tax return filings for the estate.1 The court rejected their requests because it concluded that al*78though they had prevailed on the valuation issue, they did not do so in an "appealable contested matter" and thus it did not have…