Central Trust Co. v. Wabash, St. L. & R. Ry. Co.

The question now presented for determination is the compensation to he allowed to the receivers. The master, upon consideration of the testimony, allowed each $112,500. Exceptions were taken by the purchasing committee, and these exceptions bring the matter before us for consideration. Heretofore all the principal allowances in this case have been settled by the agreement of the parties, and after such agreement all the court’s action has been a proforma approval. But this allowance is contested, and a large volume of testimony taken.

As preliminary I remark that there has been no little…