Moffett Bros. Partnership Estate v. Moffett

September 10, 1936, B.C. Howard, an attorney, and hereinafter referred to as claimant, filed his petition in the Probate Court of Jackson County (at Kansas City) asking for an allowance against Moffett Brothers partnership estate for legal services alleged to have been rendered the estate. The Commerce Trust Company was the administrator de bonis non of the estate, or so considered for purposes of this opinion. The petition alleged that the administrator employed claimant, and that since employment he "has continuously given legal advice and rendered legal services to the administrator for…