Legal Opinion
In Re the Estate of Thz Fo Farm
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided February 7, 1947No. 2618PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OP THE COURT BY
PETERS, J.
This is a motion by the former attorney of an executor to have the circuit judge at chambers fix a fair and reasonable attorney’s fee for the professional services theretofore rendered by him on behalf of the executor in the matter of the estate of which the latter Avas the legal representative. At the time the motion was filed, the attorney had been discharged and the matter of the estate was still pending before the circuit judge at chambers to whom the motion was addressed.
The motion itself is merely in the form of a prayer “to determine and fix a fair and…
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