Fanning v. Poe

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is an attorney and counselor at law, duly admitted to practice as such in the courts of the state of New York. Authorized by the court of their appointment, the Baltimore city court of Baltimore, Md., to do so, Bushman and Poe, receivers for Hambleton & Co., retained and appointed him to, represent them in the court of bankruptcy in the defense and collection of Ham-bleton & Co.’s claims against Lane Drug Stores, Inc., bankrupt.

Having gotten into a controversy with the receivers over the amount of his fee, no amount having been fixed in the order authorizing…