Muskegon Boiler Works v. Tennessee Valley Iron & R.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
In Equity. Suit by the Muskegon Boiler Works and others against the Tennessee Valley Iron & Railroad Company. On exceptions to report of special commissioner on allowance of fees to complainants’ solicitors.
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
The Special Commissioner has reported the reasonable fee of plaintiffs’ solicitors, Messrs. Campbell and Higgins to be $40,000; to which report exceptions have been hied. After careful consideration of the arguments and briefs of counsel, my conclusions, briefly stated, are:
[1, 2j One jointly interested with others in a common fund who brings and prosecutes a suit for its preservation and administration, as in a general creditors’ suit, is equitably entitled to reimbursement of his costs, including reasonable fees of his counsel, to be paid either out of the fund…
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