Ex parte Whitcomb

LOWELL, District Judge.

Two charges in the assignee’s account are objected to: one, of $275, for his own services in superintending the manufacture of the unwrought stock of shoes in the bankrupt’s factory, under an order of court authorizing the business to be carried on in accordance with the act of 22d June, 1S74; the other, of $300, for money paid his counsel for advice in the settlement of the estate.

The evidence upon the first item is that the *963assignee is a manufacturer, acquainted with the business which was to be carried on, and that he took the superintendence of it, and gave his time…