Myerson v. Gumpert

Harry J. Myerson (referred to throughout this opinion as “plaintiff”), appeals from an order denying his petition for a fee of $12,000 for services alleged to have been rendered in preserving assets of a corporation in receivership and liquidation.

In plaintiff’s brief, he states that the fee is sought as compensation for upwards of 300 hours of time spent in the preparation of abstracts and briefs which were filed in this court in 1939 (Myerson v. Norton, 302 Ill App 176, 23 NE2d 926); that, as a result of these services, a decree of the Superior Court was affirmed, thus bringing into the…