Vanhooser v. Cunningham

This case is before us on a writ of error to review the judgment of the County Court fixing the solicitors' fees in a suit for the sale of land for partition.

R.L. Draper died intestate in Jackson County, Tennessee, in the year 1935, the owner of several valuable tracts of land and personalty. His land was worth about $48,000, and the personalty almost $65,000.

The petitioner, Vanhooser, inherited a small interest in the realty, and shortly after his death she filed a petition in the County Court to sell all of his land for partition, and made his other next of kin and collateral heirs parties…