LeLaurin v. Frost National Bank of San Antonio

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

The appellant attorney initiated this proceeding against the appellee Bank for the recovery of an attorney’s fee. While the necessity for litigation over attorney’s fees is always regrettable, in this case the courts must settle honest differences of opinion on which the parties have not been able to agree. All of the parties are citizens of Texas. If federal jurisdiction exists, it arises from a Referee’s order in a bankruptcy proceeding which included a large attorney’s fee, $25,000.00, in the amount of a claim allowed to the Bank as a non-petitioning creditor. We…