Merchants' Bank of St. Joseph v. Crysler
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal f!rom the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This was an application by the Merchants’ Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., First National Bank of Hannibal, Mo., and John Vaughn, interveners in the suit of Ezra V. Snively, against the Loomis Coal Company, to vacate an order, made by the circuit court, allowing $5,000 to Charles S. Crysler, the attorney for the receiver appointed in the cause. The circuit court denied the motion.
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Appeal f!rom the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This was an application by the Merchants’ Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., First National Bank of Hannibal, Mo., and John Vaughn, interveners in the suit of Ezra V. Snively, against the Loomis Coal Company, to vacate an order, made by the circuit court, allowing $5,000 to Charles S. Crysler, the attorney for the receiver appointed in the cause. The circuit court denied the motion. The interveners appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a final order in an equity case allowing Charles S. Crysler, one of the appellees, $5,000 as an attorney’s fee, in addition to amounts previously allowed, for services by him rendered to the receiver appointed in said case. The allowance was made under the following circumstances: In the month of June, 1893, a bill was filed by Ezra V. Snively against the Loomis Coal Company to establish and to enforce a vendor’s lien against the property of the coal company, and at the instance of the complainant, James A. Bovard, who has since died, was appointed…
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