In Re Brown's Estate

This is an appeal by Pearce C. Rodey, an attorney-at-law, from an order fixing at $5,000 his fees in connection with the administration of decedent's estate. The attorney had asked for a fee of $10,000. While the trial court found that the services of appellant were of the reasonable value of $10,000, that nevertheless, because of the condition imposed by a certain contract under which he was employed and by which any fee earned above $5,000 was to be contingent upon approval by one of the parties having an interest in the estate, one Jean Elizabeth Hall, he could recover no more than the…