Webster v. Sweat

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the receiver of a failed national bank from an order allowing fees to appellee as attorney for the bank prior to its failure, declaring a general retaining lien upon all notes and papers which ap-pellee had in his possession for collection or for purposes of suit, and declaring special charging liens in cases where he had reduced the bank’s claims to judgment. The amount of the fees fixed by the court is not questioned, but the order is challenged in so far as it undertakes to give any lien for attorney’s fees. In several eases charging liens which…