Hohensee v. Minear

After a sale under a deed of trust in default had been finally ratified, the trustee moved, as the deed of trust authorized, for the allowance of a counsel fee against the estate in his hands in the amount of $15,000. In support of the fee was a certificate of the lawyer showing services rendered during some 300 hours in connection with his services in the circuit court and in this Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. After a hearing at which appellants, the former owner of the property and his son who had defaulted as purchaser on the first sale, had so vigorously challenged the…