Sampsell v. Monell

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Paul Sampsell, L. Boteler and Stewart McKee, trustees of a bankrupt corporation, appeal from an order of the district court, affirming an order of a referee in bankruptcy, awarding to Theodore Monell, counsel for certain conditional sales contract claimants, an attorney’s fee in the sum of $2500. The fee was ordered to be paid out of the bankrupt estate for services in the bankruptcy proceedings of Christ’s Church of the Golden Rule, a corporation, in accordance with the terms of the contracts.

The corporation was adjudicated a bankrupt after filing a voluntary petition…