Succession of Guichard

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari in this case to review a judgment of the Court of Appeal for the Parish of Orleans which affirmed a judgment of the district court ordering the fee of an attorney, fixed at $300, to be paid out of the mass of the succession. This attorney represented three of the heirs who were adjudged to have a sAo interest in the succession. No administrator was appointed for the succession, nor was it ever under administration.

Arthur F. Guichard died in 1938 possessed of one piece of real estate located in the City of New Orleans. In 1948 two sons and a…