St. Louis, Trustee for Mullanphy v. McAllister

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis refusing to allow costs as between attorney and client and direct their payment out of the trust fund involved in certain antecedent litigation. The facts with respect to such litigation may be briefly stated as follows:

In 1916 the city of St. Louis, as trustee under the will of Bryan Mullanphy, deceased, instituted a suit against the Attorney-General of Missouri, as the representative of the general public in matters appertaining to the administration of public charities, for the purpose of having the trust fund…