Lake's Adminsitrator v. Pattie

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Madison county, which overruled exceptions to a commissioner’s report in which a fee of $3,500 paid by D. M. Pattie, sheriff of Madison county and as such administrator de bonis non of R. F..Lake, deceased, to his counsel had been allowed.

The fee in question was excepted to by the appellant as administrator of Mrs. R. V. Lake, deceased, upon three grounds:

*132“First: Because no part of said fee should be charged against the distributive share of Ann Y. Lake, but all should be charged against the distributive share of the heirs at law of R.…