Snook v. Kennedy

Citations

• 103 Wash. 390
• 174 P. 643
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1082

Syllabus

<p>Executoes and Administbatobs — Actions —• Attorney’s Fees. Where the executrix of a nonintervention will brought action for an accounting, making her attorney a party defendant, who was alleged to have an undetermined claim against the estate, she cannot assign error in that the judgment fixed the amount of his fees.</p> <p>Appeal — Review—Assignment of Errors. Complaint cannot be made that a judgment entered should not have been against an executrix or against the estate in the absence of any assignment of errors thereon.</p> <p>Executors and Administbatobs — Accounting—Attorney's Fees— Evidence. Six thousand dollars is reasonable compensation for an attorney for an executrix of a nonintervention will, where the estate was appraised at over $400,000, there were over 400 pieces of real estate involved, he probated the will and attended to all the usual duties, and there were diversified interests involving a great deal of detail, and all services were diligently attended to with reasonable success.</p>