Croft v. Clark

Donald L. Corbin, Chief Judge.

This appeal comes to us from the Grant County Probate Court. Appellants appeal from an order allowing attorney’s fees to be assessed against the assets of the decedent’s estate in the amount of $5,625 in a district court action in which the administrator was a defendant individually and in his representative capacity. We reverse and remand.

Prior to the decedent’s death, appellee’s name was placed on a bank account and several certificates of deposit with the decedent’s name. Appellee’s son and his wife also received a deed from the decedent to decedent’s…