In re Connell & Sons

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

The bankrupts ask for the allowance of an attorney’s fee of $150 to be paid as a preferred claim under section 64b of the Bankruptcy Act [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3447] for professional services rendered them in the performance of the duties required of them by the act. The referee allowed them $75, and the question is whether that was adequate. This is an involuntary case, and the services rendered were in connection with the preparation of the bankrupts’ schedules. There is no doubt, according to the evidence, that a large amount of time was spent in gathering…