Dobbins v. Title Guarantee & Tr. Co.

Holding

The court held that a probate court's final order, which allowed an extraordinary fee solely to one co-executor, constituted a conclusive judicial apportionment of that compensation and was therefore res judicata on the issue of how the fee was to be divided between the fiduciaries, barring a subsequent civil action by the excluded co-executor to claim a share based on a private agreement.