Court Opinion

ID: 9864392
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 12:57:52.356432+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:35.255749
License: Public Domain

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice. By direct appeal C. Floyd Huff challenges as insufficient an allowance of $5,000 as attorney’s fee, while executors and others insist in their cross-appeal that $3,500 is enough.1  The Court’s understanding of the record, familiarity of the Judge with successive transactions and activities, his knowledge respecting the capable men who in evaluating services testified for each side, — these considerations and a review of the abstract persuade us that in exercising the discretion with which the trial Court was invested, no abuse has been shown; nor was the judgment contrary to a preponderance of the evidence. Jacoway v. Hall, 67 Ark. 340, 55 S. W. 12; Phoenix Insurance Co. v. Fleenor, 104 Ark. 119, 148 S. W. 650. Affirmed. Mr. Justice Holt concurs. Mr. Justice George Nose Smith not participating.   The decree directing payment of the fee is against Arkansas Trust Company and Q. Byrum Hurst, as co-executors of the estate of D. C. Richards, and Cooper B. Land, as Administrator [of the Richards estate] with the will annexed.