Dierickx v. Wisehart

SWANN, Judge.

Patricia E. Dieri.ckx, guardian of Blanche Emswiller, an incompetent, appeals from an order of the County Judge which required the guardian to pay Four Hundred Dollars to appellee, Robert F. Wisehart, as attorney’s fees. She asserts that the trial court erred in awarding attorney fees because of insufficient evidence that Wisehart was “employed” by the guardian, and for holding that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure did not apply to this proceeding.

The ward owned real property in Indiana. Wisehart, an attorney in Indiana, represented purchasers to whom the land was sold. The…