Rodgers v. Bromberg

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appellees, as attorneys at law, were allowed a fee of $3,500 for representing the petitioning creditors in procuring an adjudication in bankruptcy of Rodgers-Meyers Furniture Company over the objection of A. N. Rodgers, the president of the company, and his wife, Florence N. Rodgers, as creditors, who appealed. The errors assigned are that no fee should have been allowed because the attorneys in verifying the petition for bankruptcy had falsely sworn that they had powers of attorney from the petitioning creditors, though they had none, and because as to one creditor…