Gentry v. Richardson

This dispute centers upon the question of whether the appellant attorneys, Tom Gentry and Thorp Thomas, are entitled to act as counsel for tiie appellee administrator in an action for the wrongful death of Billy Warren Brod. The probate court, by the order now under review, approved the administrator’s employment of three other attorneys, Kenneth Coffelt, Ben McCray, and Fred Briner, and enjoined the appellants from acting further in the suit for wrongful death.

Billy Warren Brod, aged nineteen, was killed in a traffic collision on October 8, 1956. On October 15 the probate court appointed the…