Jaffray v. Steedman
Supreme Court of South Carolina
In this case the plaintiffs were paid their claim in full under the decision to be found in 35 S. C., 33, and there remained a balance for pro rata distribution amongst the unreleasing creditors of the assignor. Thereupon plaintiffs’ attorneys claimed that as they had brought this fund into court they should be paid a reasonable counsel fee out of the general fund. This claim was disallowed on Circuit (Norton, J.), and these attorneys appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Pope,
*557This court say:
The contention may be thus stated: Should the attorney of plaintiffs to any action really brought for the benefit of plaintiffs alone, when such action has secured the full and complete rights *558of the plaintiffs, and afterwards such action is retained by the court to adjust the rights and equities between the defendants and among themselves, be allowed any compensation as counsel fees from the estate of an assignor through whom the plaintiffs and defendants derived all their rights? The rights of i attorneys as to compensation have had several…
2Cited by1 opinion
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