Smelser v. Trent
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
This appeal challenges an award of fees for an attorney's efforts in recovering a tract of real property for an estate. Various beneficiaries of the estate argue that the personal representative of the estate had no authority to employ the attorney to recover the real property for the estate and that the fee she agreed upon (one-third of the sales price of the property) was excessive. The trial court awarded the attorney the agreed-upon fee. We affirm.
At her death in 1986, Ruthie McCormack, a Tennessean, owned a 333-acre farm in Limestone County, Alabama. Although she had executed a deed to…
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