Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Hamilton

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

As to the objection to the allowance of $18,000 fees for the receivers’ attorneys, both the master and the court found that those fees were proper, and not excessive, and we also find that such allowance is abundantly sustained by the record.

Several reasons are assigned why no fees should have been allowed to Receivers Trautmann and Hamilton, the most important of which is that it is claimed there is evidence to show that on March 5, 1914, the day before the appointment of the three receivers, Crane, Hamilton, and Rorimer, it was agreed by Rorimer, Hamilton, Trautmann, and…