Bless v. Breen

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The respondent, Betty Breen, is an heir of a one-seventh interest in the appellant Murray estate. In an earlier case, Breen v. Miller, 627 S.W.2d 340 (Mo.App.1982), Breen successfully removed the personal representative of the estate. Breen then filed for her attorney’s fees and expenses to be reimbursed from the estate and the trial court awarded her $16,690.79 ($15,-000.00 attorney fees, $1,690.79 expenses). The successor personal representative of the estate took this appeal.

The one point on appeal contends that the trial court (the Probate Division Circuit Court Platte…