In re Wise
District Court, W.D. Washington
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of Boress Wise and the community composed of Boress Wise and his wife. On objections to cost bill, after a denial of an adjudication on an involuntary petition.
1Opinion of the Court
NETERER, District Judge.
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed, and respondents answered denying bankruptcy. The issue thus raised was submitted to a jury, and a verdict returned in favor of respondent; motion for a new trial was made and denied; cost bill filed claiming, among other items, $20 attorney’s fees. Objection to the taxation of attorney’s fees and other costs is made.
[1] It is contended by the petitioning creditors that section 3e of the Bankruptcy Act precludes the taxation of costs; such subdivision being:
“Whenever a petition is filed by any person for the purpose of…
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