BILLINGER v. JOST

No. 35184.

510 S.W.2d 57 (1974)

Ecaterina BILLINGER et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Elisabeth JOST et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division Two.

May 14, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyree C. Derrick, St. Louis, for appellants.

Smith, Hanke & Batts, Robert W. Hammerstein, Jr., St. Louis, for respondents.


SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding attorney's fees and expenses of $1,945.00 to plaintiffs' counsel in a partition suit. The award was based upon 52½ hours at $35.00 per hour ($1,785.00) plus $160.00 expense. Defendants do not quarrel with the reasonableness of the hourly award but direct their attention instead to the number of hours, contending some of the claimed time was solely for plaintiffs' benefit. The partition brought...

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