Ward v. Ward

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs attorney appeals from the trial court’s award of fees for services he performed during a partition suit.1 Appellant asserts that the fee was grossly inadequate and an abuse of discretion. We affirm the trial court’s decree.

Plaintiff Marianne Ward employed appellant to represent her in partition action against Ronnie Ward, her former husband, and Guy and Rose Ward, Ronnie’s parents. Plaintiff sought partition in kind of a 66.70 acre farm in Franklin County, Missouri, which the parties had purchased in 1976. The defendants denied that the property could be…