ESTATE OF POISL

Docket No. L.A. 24262.

48 Cal.2d 334 (1957)

309 P.2d 817

Estate of JOSEPH C. POISL, Deceased. THOMAS W. HUGHES, Appellant, v. ROBERT L. FERGUSON, as Executor, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Hughes, in pro. per., and Alfred L. Bartlett for Appellant.

Ben M. Kochman for Respondent Emma Poisl.


CARTER, J.

In this case, Hughes, the attorney for the executor under decedent's will in the above mentioned estate, petitioned the superior court administering probate law in the estate proceedings, to have it ordered that he be paid attorney's fees for extraordinary services performed in opposing the proceeding in the lower court and on appeal by decedent's widow to revoke the will of decedent as to her on the ground that she was not provided for as required by section...

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