Cromwell v. Curtis

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Certain bondholders and shareholders of the Manati Sugar Company appeal from an order in bankruptcy in the reorganization of that company, making allowances to a committee of bondholders and to their attorneys. The appellants complain because the attorneys represented at the same time creditors and shareholders in the preparation of a plan of reorganization, in securing its acceptance and execution,'and generally during the pendency of insolvency proceedings; and because the committee retained them, knowing that they did. The *811debtor was a New York corporation organized…