Legal Opinion

In re Covington

District Court, E.D. North Carolina

Decided October 5, 1904PublishedCited by 5 opinions

In Bankruptcy. On certificate from referee.

1Opinion of the Court

PURNELL, District Judge.

The petition for attorney's fees certified by referee in which the attorney for bankrupt asks for $250 and the attorney for petitioning creditors for $500. The referee recommends an allowance for the first of $50 and to the latter $200, from which recommendation the respective parties appealed.

The referee in this division of the district is usually very liberal in his allowance to attorneys; usually more liberal than the court. The rule for such allowances has been laid down by the Supreme Court of *885the United States in numerous decisions, notably in Randolph v.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

Randolph v. ScruggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1903

3Cited by5 opinions

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