Legal Opinion
Brown v. Gerdes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 7, 1944No. 183PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
The question in this case is whether the New York court or the federal bankruptcy court has the power to fix the fees of petitioners who as attorneys represented the bankruptcy estate in litigation in the state courts. The *180New York Court of Appeals held that that jurisdiction rested exclusively in the bankruptcy court. 290 N. Y. 468, 49 N. E. 2d 718. The case is here on a petition for writ of certiorari which we granted because of the importance of the problem under the Bankruptcy Act.
In January, 1939, a petition for reorganization of Reynolds Investing Co., Inc. was approved under Ch. X of…
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