Freedman v. Horton, Schwartz & Perse
Decision Date | 15 April 1980 |
Docket Number | No. 79-1203,79-1203 |
Parties | Evelyn Patricia FREEDMAN, Appellant, v. HORTON, SCHWARTZ & PERSE, Appellees. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Devitt, Friedrich, Blackwell, Mikos & Ridley, Ft. Lauderdale, for appellant.
Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Mallory H. Horton, Miami, for appellees.
Before BARKDULL and HUBBART, JJ., and EZELL, BOYCE F., Jr. (Ret.), Associate Judge.
Evelyn Patricia Freedman appeals from a final judgment awarding attorneys' fees to the law firm of Horton, Schwartz and Perse (appellees). These fees were awarded to appellees predicated upon an implied contract that they would be compensated by the appellant for appellate services rendered by them in a complicated estate proceeding. For background, see: In Re Estate of Freedman, 226 So.2d 423 (Fla.3d DCA 1969) cert. denied 234 So.2d 122 (Fla.1969); Kramer v. Freedman, 272 So.2d 195 (Fla.3d DCA 1973); Kramer v. Freedman, 295 So.2d 97 (Fla.1974); In Re Estate of Freedman, 340 So.2d 1275 (Fla.3d DCA 1977); Freedman v. Kramer, 347 So.2d 790 (Fla.3d DCA 1977).
In the final judgment, the court made the following findings of fact and conclusions of law:
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