Johnston v. Higdon

While a court of equity, in receivership proceedings, is authorized to award to counsel filing the petition and representing the moving creditor reasonable fees for services thus rendered, to be paid out of the fund brought into court for distribution (Civil Code of 1910, § 5488), and while in garnishment cases the expenses of the moving creditor, including reasonable attorney’s fees, are to be paid out of the fund going to judgment creditors receiving the benefit of his diligence (Whaley v. Cunningham, 41 Ga. 320; Civil Code of 1910, § 5290), and while “in claim cases the attorney causing…