Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1979

Rivers v. Phillips

Rivers v. Phillips
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided January 30, 1979 · Bart, Haverfield, Hub, Kehoe
367 So. 2d 251; 1979 Fla. App. LEXIS 14435 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Rivers v. Phillips

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Appellant, E. D. Rivers, Jr., seeks reversal of an order awarding appellee, J. 0. Phillips, a $20,000 attorney’s fee as the reasonable value of his services rendered to Rivers in his capacity as guardian of the person and property of Lucile Lashley Rivers, deceased-incompetent.

On appeal Rivers contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the amount of the attorney’s fee award. We cannot agree.

After a review of the expert testimony (which ranged from $40,000-$50,000 as a reasonable fee) and documentary evidence, we find that there was competent substantial evidence to support the award of a $20,000 attorney’s fee. Accordingly, we must affirm that award. See 4 Fla.Jur.2d Attorneys at Law § 155 (1978).

Affirmed.

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