Bijotat v. His Creditors

Martin J.

Paul Longis, one of the creditors, is appellant from, a judgment overruling his opposition to a charge of one hundred and fifty dollars on the tableau, as a compensation to the attorney of the absent creditors. His counsel has urged that the act of 1817 provides that ‘ the fees of the counsellors who shall be appointed on behalf of the absent creditors, shall in no case be paid by the mass of creditors, but shall be levied on the amount of the sums which shall he recovered for the account of the said absent creditors, at the rate of five per cent; provided, that in no case the fees…