Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. United Motor Car & Supply Co.

Lane, V. C.

This is an application for an allowance for compensation for services rendered as counsel to the defendant company from April 27th, 1917, the date of the institution of the insolvency proceedings against it, to May 3d, 1917, when the officers of the company, on the advice of counsel, consented to the appointment of a receiver under the statute.

Application is not made under the provision of the statute providing for the payment of employes, but is based upon the inherent power of the court to direct paid, as a preferred claim, a reasonable sum for compensation of counsel employed by…