In re Talton

PURNELL, District Judge.

This cause is before the court now upon the report of the referee on allowances asked by attorneys. The bankrupt, it appears, by a mortgage of his wife’s property, in which he testified he had no interest, and over which he had no control, has raised a sufficient amount to offer a composition of 40 cents on the dollar. Now comes the attorneys, and one asks for a fee of $175, and the attorney for the bankrupt for $50, to be paid out of the estate.

This court has at some length and with considerable labor tried to define the law in regard to attorney’s allowances, with…