Eckert v. Caspers

This is an appeal by several creditors of the debtor in reorganization from allowances awarded to the trustee and his attorneys, and Henry H. Silverman, now deceased, attorney for the petitioning creditors. The nature of the reorganization proceedings and of the plan which the court confirmed is described in a prior appeal, Country Life Apartments v. Buckley, 2 Cir., 145 F.2d 935, and need not be repeated. The trustee was appointed August 5, 1941 and he and his attorneys rendered extensive services for nearly four years without any interim allowances. In their applications for compensation…