Rothbart v. Metropolitan Trust Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Frieub

delivered the opinion of the court.

The law firms of Rothbart .& Rosenfield and Kelly & Cohler brought suit against Metropolitan Trust Company, as trustee under two separate liquidation trusts, to recover attorneys’ fees from the respective trust estates for defending the trustee and trust managers in a prior suit, charging them with fraud, breaches of trust and seeking their removal. Harry Cold, who was one of the complainants in the prior proceeding, filed an intervening petition herein, alleging that he was the owner of certain units of beneficial interest in the…