Levenson v. Word

Ellington, Judge.

Louis Levenson, as the administrator of the estate of Jerry Eugene Post, brought a complaint for damages seeking to recover $125,000 from the law firm of Word & Simmons, EC., and from its principals Gerald Word and Maryellen Simmons, under a theory of conversion. Levenson averred that the firm was not entitled to legal fees paid to it from the estate by Post’s wife, Debra, who later pleaded guilty to murdering her husband, under the theory that a “thief’ and a “slayer” cannot pass title to property, including money, and that Word and Simmons either knew or should have known…