Smith v. Smith

Defendant, an attorney at law, had been employed by the superintendent of banks in charge of the failed Colton State Bank (hereinafter called the superintendent) to make some collections of the bank’s paper. Pie collected one item of $72.25, upon which the superintendent and the court fixed his fee at $15.85, and another item of $300, upon which the superintendent and the court fixed his fee at $60. This left in his hands due the superintendent after deducting his fees the sum of $276.40. Both of these allowances for fees were fixed and approved by the circuit court of the bank’s domicile…