MATTER OF ESTATE OF PAINTER

No. 76-329.

567 P.2d 820 (1977)

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 Representative-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

July 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Jean E. Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., J. Stephen Phillips, Deputy Atty. Gen., Denver, for beneficiary-appellant.

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


SMITH, Judge.

Following the administration of the Austin M. Painter estate, valued at approximately one million dollars, the district court awarded the administrator, The First National Bank of Greeley, $39,337 in fees and counsel for the administrator, William H. Southard, $42,000 in fees. On the basis that the duties performed by the administrator and counsel were of a routine nature and involved no legal disputes, a beneficiary...

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