Maury County Trust Co. v. Consolidated Phosphate Co.

The original hill in this cause was filed for the purpose of foreclosing a deed of trust on lands located in several counties in Middle Tennessee.

Op. April 5,1940, J. Shelby Coffey, one of the solicitors in the cause, filed an intervening petition in which he asked the chancellor to fix his compensation for services rendered the complainant trustee to date. The trustee demurred to the petition upon the ground that the chancellor had fixed the basis for computing the compensation of solicitors representing the trustee in his decree of November 1, 1938, and that he was without authority to…