MATTER OF ESTATE OF PAINTER

No. 79CA0093.

628 P.2d 124 (1980)

In the Matter of The ESTATE OF Austin M. PAINTER, Deceased. The COLORADO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, Beneficiary-Appellant, v. The FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GREELEY, COLORADO, and its counsel, William H. Southard, Personal Representatives-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

Rehearing Denied February 19, 1981.

Certiorari Denied May 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., J. Stephen Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for beneficiary-appellant.

Jack D. Henderson, Denver, for personal representatives-appellees.


RULAND, Judge.

As a beneficiary of the Estate of Austin M. Painter, deceased, the State Board of Agriculture again appeals from the district court's order awarding fees to the administrator of the estate, the First National Bank of Greeley, and to William Southard, counsel for the estate. This court reversed as excessive the district court's initial award of $39,337 to the bank and $42,000 to counsel. We held that fees awarded under the Probate Code must be based...

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