Carlson v. Revere Beach County Fair & Musical Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on August 30, 1906, by several of the stockholders of the defendant corporation against the corporation and other stockholders and officers, alleging fraudulent conduct in its. management and seeking the appointment of a receiver and a conservation and distribution of its assets.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on August 30, 1906, by several of the stockholders of the defendant corporation against the corporation and other stockholders and officers, alleging fraudulent conduct in its. management and seeking the appointment of a receiver and a conservation and distribution of its assets. The affairs of the corporation having been fully administered by a receiver, but there being undisposed of appeals by the plaintiffs from interlocutory decrees denying motions for additional counsel fees to be paid to their counsel, W. E. Ulmer, Esquire, the material facts…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It is stated in the record that the efforts and services of the counsel for the plaintiffs contributed materially in *292obtaining under the foreclosure sale a substantial surplus over the amount due on the mortgage, and the receiver concedes that, all parties to the litigation having been benefited, a reasonable amount should be paid to him out of the fund before a general distribution is ordered. Davis v. Bay State League, 158 Mass. 434. By an interlocutory decree from which no appeal was taken, the plaintiffs’ counsel was allowed a certain amount which, not having been equal to the sum…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Davis v. Bay State LeagueMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Barnes v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Cashman v. BangsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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