In re Sully

HOLT, District Judge.

This is a motion to confirm a referee’s report fixing the receivers’ allowance. I do not intend ordinarily to interfere with the decisions of referees respecting allowances, except for weighty reasons. They have a personal knowledge of what has been done in a case, and can usually judge as well as, and, upon the whole, better than, I can what compensation should be allowed. But in this case the referee states in his opinion that he has been guided by certain decisions in which some judges have held that the object of Congress was to render the administration of estates in…