Elkin v. Rives

Citations

• 82 Miss. 744

Syllabus

<p>Deed of Tbust. Sale under. Trustee’s compensation. Attorney’s fees.</p> <p>If a deed of trust be enforced by the trustee making sale of the property, he is entitled to retain from the proceeds for his services only a reasonable compensation to himself as trustee, although the note evidencing the debt secured by the deed' stipulates for the payment of an attorney’s fee in case it be collected by an attorney and the trustee is an attorney and a member of a firm of attorneys to whom the payee intrusted the note for collection.</p>