Smith v. Sprague

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s petition for allowance of compensation for services rendered by her deceased husband out of the receivership estate of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company.

For some twenty years following 1923 the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company was in. receivership, during a part of which time reorganization proceedings -were- also pending. During the entire time of the receivership the road was operated by the receiver so that it was an operating receivership. Arthur E. Smith, at and prior to the initiation of…