In re J. D. Connell Iron Works Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge. Proceedings in the matter of the liquidation of the J. D. Connell Iron Works Company, in which Otto J. Mayer and another claimed a lien for attorney's fees. From an order allowing the fees and preferring them to other debts, the claimant Robert P. I-Iyams Coal Company, Limited, appeals, and the Metropolitan Bank also appeals from the account of the receivers.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
PROVOSTY, J.
[7] The rehearing was restricted to the questions of the costs of the appeal, and the fees of the receivers. It is now practically agreed’ that the costs should bé paid in their entirety by the mass, and we shall so decree. The question of the fees of the receivers was not overlooked by the court in considering the case, but in some way was overlooked in drafting the opinion. These fees amounting to $529.07, being 2% per cent, on the amount to be distributed, were held by the trial court not to be a proper charge against the receivership for the reason that the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Leidigh-Dalton Lumber Co. v. HouckSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915