Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Bay State Gas Co. of Delaware
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 31, 1910No. 230PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity. Suit by Jacob Edwards and others against the Bay State Gas Company of Delaware. On petition of Charles K. Darling, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, for an allowance of commissions out of funds paid into court.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition of the clerk that he be allowed a statutory commission of 1 per cent, on the sum of $91,-552.27, accumulated as herein set out. The claim is purely statutory, and rests on sections 995 and 828, Rev. St. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 711, 635). Section 995 is as 'follows:
“All moneys paid into any court of the United States, or received by the officers thereof, in any cause pending or adjudicated in such court, shall be forthwith deposited with the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, or a designated depositary of the United States, in the name and to the…
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