Hammond v. Atlee

JAMES, Chief Justice.

In the case of W. Showalter against the Laredo Improvement Company, pending in the District Court of Webb County, a receiver—E. R. Tarver, a practicing attorney at law—was appointed and acting, whose compensation has at all times been $100 per month, as fixed by the court appointing him. A part of the receiver’s duties was to institute a number of suits to enforce payment of obligations due the estate which he represented, and in pursuance of this he engaged the services of E. A. Atlee, also an attorney, who brought and prosecuted to judgment a number of such suits, of…