Cunningham v. Sizer Steel Corp.

HAZEL, District Judge.

This is a motion to impress an attorney’s lien upon a fund in the custody of the receivers of the defendant corporation appointed by this court. The petitioners eoncededly have performed legal services at the request of the insolvent corporation in the settlement and adjustment of income tax matters pending before the United States Department of Internal Revenue. The subject-matter arose from an alleged tax indebtedness amounting to $232,026.78, which, in consequence of petitioners’ services, was finally adjusted with the government at $18,413.80, and after the receivers…