In re Kross
District Court, S.D. New York
lu Bankruptcy. -On hearing of a question certified by the referee as to the allowance of a fee to the bankrupt's attorney.
1Opinion of the Court
B’.OWN. District Judge.
The question has been certified to me by lire referee in charge of the above case, whether an attorney’s fee should he allowed and paid out of the assets to the bankrupt’s attorney under section 64, subd. b, par. 3, in the absence of any special benefit of those services to the estate. Ex parte O’Connell, 92 Fed. 889. The act of 1867 contained no such provision.
The practice has obtained to some extent among the referees in this district, to allow an attorney’s fee in such cases, and this practice' seems to me to be in accordance with the intent of the act. The…
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