57 Neb. 137 | Neb. | 1898
Nancy Jennie May died in Lancaster county, leaving a paper purporting to be her last will and testament, in and by which she bequeathed $1,000 to the “African Mission under Bishop Taylor’s Jurisdiction.” This paper vms presented to the county court of said county for probate, and its probate resisted. Bishop Taylor, or some one acting for him, employed Messrs. Atkinson & Doty, attorneys and counsellors at law of the Lancaster county bar, 'to assist in the litigation which ensued over the “contest of .this will, The county court admitted the
The judgment of the district court was right. The estate of a decedent is not liable to an attorney for services rendered by him for and at the request of a legatee named in the decedent’s will in a contest thereof. The judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.