In Re East Side Investors, Debtors. Monty M. Mills, Dr. Patrick Yancey v. East Side Investors

This case on appeal involves two issues, (1) whether appellees are entitled to attorney fees under Georgia law, and (2) if so entitled, whether the claim for attorney fees was a provable debt in bankruptcy. In the proceedings below, the judge of the bankruptcy court, while holding a claim for attorney fees as a provable debt in bankruptcy, ruled that the debt had not been collected in this case and that appellees were not entitled to attorney fees. The district court, while agreeing that the debt was provable in bankruptcy, overruled the holding by the bankruptcy court that appel-lees were…