Legal Opinion

In re Littell's Estate

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided November 7, 1890PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from special term. An appeal by Henry Aplingtori, as assignee "of George M. D. Littell and Marion W. Littell, from that part of an order confirming the referee’s report upon his accounting which disallows $250, part of the fee paid to his counsel.

1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.

The assignee having filed his account, Cortlandt B. Littell, a creditor, objected thereto, and insisted that the assignee should be charged with the sum of $2,583.70, the amount of certain penalties alleged to have accrued to the assignor from the Importers’ & Traders’ national Bank, under sections 5197 and 5198 of the Revised Statutes of the United States; it having been alleged that such bank had exacted the payment of usurious interest from the assignors. A reference was ordered,- and, the referee having duly made his report disallowing the creditor Littell’s claim that the assignee’s…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Levy's AccountingNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1876
  2. In Matter of Assignment of HulburtNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
  3. In re HulbertNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1882

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. McCrea v. ScofieldAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904

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