McElhaney v. Cox

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellants contend that the chancery court erred in allowing attorneys’ fees of $275.00 to appellees’ attorneys from the proceeds of a partition sale in this case. The action was commenced by a petition of appellees Virgil Cox and Clara Armstrong to quiet the title to the lands involved in them. Appellants Ella Cox McElhaney and Pearl Reeves answered and counterclaimed, alleging that they were tenants in common with appellees and that the property was not susceptible of division in kind, and asking that the lands be sold in partition, that the court award Ella Cox…