Young v. Boatmen's National Bank

— The defendant bank, as executor of the estate of Hugh W. Thomasson, deceased, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of the City of St. Louis allowing the plaintiffs-respondents Taylor R. Young and P. H. Cullen (the latter now deceased and represented by his executor) an attorney fee of $42,500 for legal services rendered to. the ' administratices of the deceased Thomasson’s estate while they were in charge thereof before his will was found.

The administratrices had been appointed in February, 1933, about a month after the death of the supposed intestate-; and on the same day by…