Legal Opinion
Penney v. Pritchard & McCall
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 24, 1950No. 6 Div. 65PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, Justice.
The question on this appeal is whether it is lawful to allow an attorney’s fee out of the estate of a non compos mentis for services in representing the petition for an inquisition into his sanity, and for the trial of the same in which he was adjudged of unsound mind and a guardian appointed, and also for resisting proceedings to set aside and vacate the inquisition.
The ward, James E. Penney, was a very wealthy man eighty-eight years old when the petition was filed by one of his two children on November 3, 1947. He had ■been confined to his bed more than two years before the…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Sprague v. Ticonic National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Trustees v. GreenoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Wilks v. WilksSupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
- Davis v. GainesSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Wallace v. FiskeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1936
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3Cited by29 opinions
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