Haight & Freese Co. v. Weiss

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal against certain allowances from the fund made to counsel in the same case to which our opinion in Weiss v. Haight & Freese Company (No. 785, passed down this day) 165 Fed. 432, relates. The appellant was the Haight & Freese Company, but there were brought into the appeal as respondents certain of the creditors who intervened, and also the receiver. By force of the facts which appear in our opinion in Haight & Freese Company v. Weiss (No. 695, passed down October 1, 1901) 156 Fed. 328, 84 C. C. A. 224, the appellee, styled the “receiver,” was in fact a…