IN RE ESTATE OF DEAN

No. 3015.

144 So.2d 65 (1962)

In re ESTATE of Nathaniel W. DEAN, Deceased. TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Priscilla Lobeck, Elizabeth Lobeck Smith, Anne Nutt Lobeck, Frances Tysen Nutt, As Executrix under the Last Will and Testament of Henry H. Nutt, Deceased, Alfred Nutt, Roger Nutt, David Nutt, Robin Lobeck, Packard Lobeck, Alan Lobeck, Robert H. Nutt, Edgar Alan Nutt, Mary Nutt Smith, Elizabeth Nutt Barnes, Alberta Lobeck Marvin and Robert A. Lobeck, Appellants, v. George J. WHITE, As Executor of the Estate of Nathaniel W. Dean, Deceased, and W.M. Kennedy, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 7, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Himes of Coles, Himes & Litschgi, Tampa, for appellants.

W.M. Kennedy and T.R. Champion, Mount Dora, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

The question on this appeal is whether the probate judge erred in granting a $10,000.00 attorney's fee in the $327,526.92 estate of Nathaniel W. Dean, deceased.

Appellant-beneficiaries contend that the amount awarded was not shown to be reasonable in that inter alia the attorney kept no time charts to demonstrate the time devoted to the estate. At the time of hearing on the petition for fees W.M. Kennedy, attorney for the estate, offered...

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