Butler v. Butler

The defendant Walter Butler and others appealed from an order of the district court of Ramsey county allowing the counsel fees of the attorneys of the plaintiffs, trustees under the will of John Butler, deceased, at the sum of $21,000, payable out of the trust property. The plaintiff trustees prevailed in the court below and on appeal. Butler v. Butler, 180 Minn. 134, 230 N. W. 575.

The action was an important one. The estate was upwards of $2,730,000. The trustees ivere signally successful in the litigation. In the opinion on the appeal it is said that the contract which was sustained in the…