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- Title: Frank v. Bloom
- Author : Tenth Circuit. United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 05, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Introductory John C. Frank, the plaintiff-appellee and cross-appellant, originally brought an action against Victoria Murdock Bloom, the defendant-appellant, to recover his attorney's fees for services rendered to Mrs. Bloom during a period starting June 4, 1971 and continuing to April 10, 1973. Frank's claim was for $107,000. The cause was tried before a jury which rendered a verdict in the amount of $85,000. Mrs. Bloom has appealed the final judgment based upon this award. Frank has filed a cross appeal from the trial court's order disallowing pre-judgment interest on the award. Frank was originally hired by Mrs. Bloom to represent her interest in the Murdock litigation which is also pending in this court. Mrs. Bloom was a member of the Murdock family which owned a newspaper in Wichita, Kansas. The paper had been in the Murdock family since the newspaper was originally founded by Mrs. Bloom's grandfather, Colonel Marshall Murdock, in 1872. When he died in 1914 the newspaper was inherited by his three children, Marcellus, Victor and Pearl. Each received one-third. Victor's one-third passed to his daughter, Katherine Henderson, and his grandson, Victor Delano. Pearl's one-third share passed to her grandson, Harry B. Brown. Victoria's father, Marcellus Murdock, following his death on March 10, 1970, left his share in a trust which he had created during his lifetime. He placed one-half of his interest in the paper, or one-sixth of the stock, in that trust. The trust created five shares, one for his widow and one for each of his four children. In 1966 Marcellus Murdock created a testamentary trust. In this he provided five shares, one for his widow and one for each of his children. The remaining one-sixth share of stock of the newspaper was willed to the testamentary trust.