Mitchell v. Whitman

STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying an allowance of attorney fees for services claimed to have been rendered by appellant to the receivership estate.

Appellant is an attorney of ability and standing who has, for some years, been the *918general counsel of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company (popularly called the “Soo”) upon an annual salary. The Soo has long been the owner of a railway system extending from the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul eastward to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., westward to the Missouri river, and northwest and west across North…