Burnrite Coal Briquette Co. v. Riggs

On receipt of the mandate of this court, following its decision that the District Court did not have jurisdiction to appoint receivers for the respondent corporation (291 F. 754), the District Court for the District of New Jersey ordered an accounting by the receivers, referred it, when made, to a master, and on exceptions to the master’s report approved their account. It then entered a decree by which it held that the items of the receivers’ account, including indebtedness incurred by receivers’ certificates and for compensation to the receivers and fees to their counsel, should be paid from…