In re Hope Min. Co.

HXLLYER, District Judge.

This is a petition by counsel of certain creditors for the allowance of a counsel fee out of the fund upon this state of facts: Some fifty creditors proved claims against the estate with security, the security in each case consisting of a lien given by a statute of this state for their wages as laborers. 2 The assignee filed a petition against two of thesecreditors, alleging the invalidity of the liens, and praying that they might be set aside. The creditors answered; the petition, after argument of counsel, was denied; the case was then taken by the as-signee to the…