Wilcox v. Halligan

This is an appeal from an award of attorneys’ fees> to' Shuman & Overcash, attorneys at law, and also from an order assessing the costs of the second sale had in a partition proceeding carried on under sections 20-2170 to 20-2199 and 20-21,100 to 20-21,111, Comp. St. 1929.

As to the first contention of the appellants, it is, substantially, that “attorneys’ fees allowable under the statutes in partition actions for plaintiff’s counsel are those in amicable proceedings,”' and that within this principle the attorneys’ services performed by pláintiff’s attorneys were not performed in an “amicable…