MATTER OF ESTATE OF PHIPPS

Nos. 83CA1117, 83CA1150.

713 P.2d 412 (1985)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Lawrence Clinton PHIPPS, a/k/a Lawrence C. Phipps, Jr. Richmond PHIPPS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. ESTATE OF Lawrence Clinton PHIPPS, a/k/a Lawrence C. Phipps, Jr., Respondent-Appellee, and Gerald H. PHIPPS and Lawrence C. Phipps, III, personal representatives, Petitioners-Appellants, v. ESTATE OF Lawrence Clinton PHIPPS, a/k/a Lawrence C. Phipps, Jr., Respondent-Appellee.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

December 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Hinshaw, P.C., George A. Hinshaw, Irvin M. Kent, Patrick L. Dulaney, P.C., Patrick L. Dulaney, Aurora, for petitioner-appellant in No. 83CA1117 and respondent-appellee in No. 83CA1150.

Hughes & Dorsey, Raymond B. Danks, H. Paul Muyskens, Denver, for petitioners-appellants in No. 83CA1150 and respondents-appellees in No. 83CA1117.

Gessling & Minton, James Gessling, Denver, for other beneficiaries-appellees Mary Young, Joan Pechman, Diana Braden, Margo Alden, Eleanor Phipps, Lincoln Phipps, and Martin H. Phipps.


TURSI, Judge.

In this consolidated case, the issues presented regard the entitlements of a beneficiary and of the personal representatives to estate-paid attorney fees. In the first matter, the probate court denied Ms. Richmond Phipps, a beneficiary, estate-paid attorney fees arising out of litigation brought by her against Gerald H. Phipps and Lawrence C. Phipps III, personal representatives of the estate of Lawrence Clinton Phipps, Jr. In the second matter it denied...

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