Varney v. Harlow
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Petition for Revision of Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, in Bankruptcy; Edmund Waddell, Jr., Judge. In the matter of the Columbia Cotton Oil & Provision Corporation, bankrupt.
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Petition for Revision of Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, in Bankruptcy; Edmund Waddell, Jr., Judge. In the matter of the Columbia Cotton Oil & Provision Corporation, bankrupt. On petition by Walter U. Varney, referee, against Leo P. Harlow, trustee, Milton E. Ailes and Clarence F. Nocment, attorneys in fact for certain bondholders, and the American Security & Trust Company, mortgage trustee, to revise an order denying petitioner a commission on the proceeds of mortgaged property.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
The petitioner is a referee in bankruptcy. He will be called the “referee.” One of the respondents is the trustee in bankruptcy of the Columbia Cotton Oil & Provision Corporation: He will be styled the “trustee,” it the “bankrupt.” The others are the trustee under a mortgage of the bankrupt intended to secure bonds issued by it, and the attorneys in fact of the holders of such bonds. The trustee, these attorneys, and the individual holders of bonds will be indifferently referred to as the “bondholders.”
The question in the case is whether the referee is entitled to be paid…
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