ESTATE OF MURPHY

Nos. 75-1146, 75-1315.

336 So.2d 697 (1976)

In re the ESTATE of Francis P. MURPHY, Jr., Deceased. Jessie Smith Murphy, Appellant, v. Anthony V. PACE, Jr., and Broward National Bank of Fort Lauderdale, Co-Executors of the Estate of Francis P. Murphy, Jr., Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kaylor Young, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant, Jessie Smith Murphy.

Clifford B. Wentworth, Hollywood, for appellee, Anthony V. Pace, Jr., as co-executor of the Estate of Francis P. Murphy, Jr., deceased, and Anthony V. Pace, Jr., Fort Lauderdale, for the Estate of Francis P. Murphy, Jr., deceased, and for the co-executors thereof.


DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellant, the sole beneficiary of the Estate of Francis P. Murphy, Jr., seeks review of an order of the circuit court awarding a partial allowance of attorney's fees to Anthony V. Pace, Jr., (attorney for the estate) and denying appellant's petition to remove Mr. Pace as one of the co-executors of the estate.

It appears that Mr. Pace had represented Doctor Francis P. Murphy, Jr., and appellant for some years prior to the doctor's death. At...

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