Whitehead v. O'Sullivan
New York Supreme Court
Action to procure au adjudication that a claim of the plaintiff for' services rendered to a former receiver of the corporation is a charge upon the assets in the defendant’s hands, and for the payment thereof..
1Opinion of the CourtBeekman, J.
In September, 1891, a petition was filed by the Amasa Lyon & Company, a corporation, for its dissolution, and one Andrew J. Hutting was appointed temporary receiver. The plaintiff, who had been the legal adviser of the corporation, assumed that relation to the receiver and rendered professional services to him, for which he made a charge of $5,000. The receiver having brought the affairs of the corporation into some degree of order, and the creditors having extended the time for the payment of their claims, the court, considering that the corporation was again solvent, dismissed the petition…
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