El Paso National Bank v. Leeper

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

Towner S. Leeper sued for attorney’s fees owing to him for representing the Temporary Administrator of the Estate of Mary Ann Spires, Deceased. Appellants, El Paso National Bank, as Temporary Administrator, and American State Bank of Lubbock, as the Independent Executor of the Estate, appealed from a judgment based upon jury findings whereby Appellee recovered from the Appellants in their representative capacities the sum of $20,000.00 as the reasonable value of his legal services and the additional sum of $5,000.00 for the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees under Tex.Rev.Civ.…