Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag v. R. P. Hussey & Co.

Smith, J.:

Costs in an action in the Supreme Court are many times large and burdensome. They should not be made so unnecessarily. Where an attorney at law is appointed a receiver of property in an action, he is usually appointed with a view to his knowledge of the law and his ability to act in all ordinary matters to protect the estate of which he is the receiver without the assistance of outside legal a‘d. The services rendered for which this allowance is made were services that could well have been rendered, as far as appeared by the record, by the receiver himself, in which case he is not…