Phillips' Administrator v. Bustard

Upon a bill of interpleader, filed by John Bustard and Worden Pope against several persons to whose use, as the creditors of John Gwathmey, the latter had conveyed to the complainants a large and various estate, in trust, for sale and distribution of the proceeds — the Circuit Court, after adjusting by a final decree the proportions of each of them and ascertaining the payment of the greater part thereof, decreed to the trustees “$3,275 to “ be retained by them for their expenses and trouble for “selling the trust estate and collecting and paying out “the trust fund.”

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