Haley v. Horwitz

ANDERSON, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment in a partition suit fixing and allowing attorneys’ fee to plaintiff’s attorneys and to the special commissioner appointed to conduct the sale in partition. The point urged by appellants is that the attorneys’ fee and the fee for the special commissioner are excessive, and that the trial court considered improper factors in determining the fee allowed to plaintiff’s attorneys.

On December 7, 1952, Julius Horwitz died intestate, leaving as his heirs forty-six nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. At the time of his death…