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IN RE ESTATE OF WATKINS

No. S-90-1036.

501 N.W.2d 292 (1993)

243 Neb. 583

In re ESTATE OF Louise C. WATKINS, Deceased. Mary Ann STALLINGS et al., Appellants, v. Richard H. ROBERTS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Louise C. Watkins, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

June 11, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon Peterson and Mark Brown of Orton, Brown, Thomas & Peterson, Lincoln, for appellants.

Patrick R. McDermott, Grant, for appellee.

HASTINGS, C.J., and BOSLAUGH, WHITE, CAPORALE, SHANAHAN, FAHRNBRUCH, and LANPHIER, JJ.

SHANAHAN, Justice.

In this appeal, the question is whether a personal representative is entitled to compensation and an attorney fee for the personal representative's lawyer in defending an action brought by devisees to surcharge and remove the personal representative, when the personal representative is surcharged but not removed from the office of personal representative.

At the time of her death on February 24, 1985, Louise C. Watkins owned property valued...

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