Barton v. Butler County Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is an appeal by the Arkansas River Gas Company from an allowance of $3,500 as an additional attorney’s fee to John W. Adams, who had been appointed by the court one of the attorneys for James M. Reynolds, the receiver of certain oil leases and oil property in controversy in this action. The receiver does not appeal.

The receiver was appointed at the commencement of the litigation, and John W. Adams and Thomas C. Wilson, who were attorneys for the contending parties in the litigation, were by the consent of those parties appointed…