In re Stearns Salt & Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. In the matter of the petition of the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company to revise an order of the District Court in the case of the Handy Things Company, bankrupt, whereby Cleland & Heald were allowed a claim for legal services and expenses.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRINGTON, Circuit Judge.
On December 19, 1914, Cleland & Heald, lawyers, filed a petition in the court below, asking allowance of a claim for fees and expenses in the sum of $5,900.43. The services were rendered and the expenses incurred in a suit of the trustee of the Handy Things Company, bankrupt, against the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, to recover the proceeds of a preference alleged to have been given by the bankrupt. After a hearing upon the merits of the claim, the referee entered an order allowing $5,000 for the services and $205.-43 for expenses; and this amount, less $474.66 paid…
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