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176 N.C. 758

In re Stone

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided July 1, 1918

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1918-07-01

This motion to allow attorneys’ fees in this proceeding coming on to be heard on 29 June, 1918, and being heard, the court overrules the motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, and the said guardian excepting to the same, R. W. Winston, Col. John W. Hinsdale, and John W. Hinsdale, Jr., testify in the case.

Decided 1918-07-01

¶1JUDGMENT OE STACY, JUDGE.

¶2This cause coming on to be heard at the June Term, 1918, of Wake Superior Court, before Hon. W. P. Stacy, judge presiding, upon the appeals by both sides from the order of Millard Mial, Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County, entered in this cause on 29 June, 1918, and being duly heard, after due consideration and after argument by *761counsel for each, side, tbe findings of fact of said clerk are in all respects approved and confirmed by tbe court, except tbe allowance of $650 to tbe attorneys. for tbe next friend; and as to tbat tbe court is of tbe opinion, and so finds, tbat said sum is not a reasonable fee, but tbat $1,000 is a reasonable and proper fee for said attorneys, and tbe findings of fact and order of said clerk is modified in tbis respect.

¶3"W. P. Stacy, Judge Presiding.

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