Handlan v. Handlan

The first of these three consolidated cases is an appeal from the lower court’s allowance of receiver’s and attorneys’ fees. -The second is an original proceeding in prohibition and the third in mandamus, both to dislodge the receiver after the controversy between the actual parties had been settled, but before the allowances to the receiver and the attorneys had been paid.

The litigation below involved two affiliated corporations in St. Louis, the Handlan-Buck Company, a manufacturing concern, and Handlan, Inc.,' a sales organization. The underlying controversy was between two brothers, E. R.…