In re Morris

PURNELL, District Judge.

This matter coming on to be heard, and being heard upon the affidavit of Donnell Gilliam, Esq., and upon the recommendation of Jas. R. Gaskill, a referee in bankruptcy, to whom the cause was referred, that an attorney’s fee of $50 be allowed said attorney.

In the petition and schedules there appears an attorney’s fee of $200, as an unsecured debt, having priority by agreement. A petition asking for the allowance of an attorney’s fee of $200, under the act of July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 64, 30 Stat. 563 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3447], was filed, and refused by the judge.…