Thompson v. Rich

The plaintiff, having been duly appointed referee to take and state the accounts of an assignee, in a proceeding for a compulsory aeounting, and having performed services as such referee and filed his report, has instituted this action to recover his fees, joining as defendants the active creditors, the assignee and one of the sureties upon the latter’s bond. The propriety and reasonableness of the claim, as to amount, being admitted by all defendants upon- the trial, and there being, apparently, no dispute as to the liability of the creditors-defendant who had moved the reference, the…