Barton v. Freedman

O’CONNELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court, Duval County, reversing an order of the County Judge’s Court of that County, sitting as a court of probate. In his order the County Judge, on the ground that he had no jurisdiction to do so, refused to fix and determine the amount claimed to be due an attorney for services rendered by said attorney to Minnie Barton, one of the distributees of the Estate of Gertrude Baxter. The services were rendered in obtaining for said distributee a share of said estate in litigation in the county judge’s court.

The circuit court…