Old Colony Trust Co. v. Union Land & Cattle Co.

Appellants, Old Colony Trust Company and other banks, unsecured creditors in large amounts of appellee Union Land & Cattle Company, appeal from an order of the District Court, made August 4, 1924, awarding $2,500 as attorney’s fees to Messrs. J. W. Dorsey and W. E. Cashman for legal services said to have been rendered by them to W. T. Smith, receiver of the Union Land & Cattle Company, in connection with an action instituted in 1920 and then pending in the United States District Court in Nevada, wherein the First National Bank of San Francisco was complainant, against the Union Land & Cattle Company, a corporation, defendant. In that action Smith was appointed receiver, and Messrs. Brown & Belford were appointed attorneys for the receiver. The receivership has continued, and Messrs. Brown & Belford have continued to act as the receiver’s attorneys. Messrs. Dorsey & Cashman were awarded the $2,500 referred to for services which it is said were rendered in connection with three appeals, which were prosecuted to this court from orders made in the receivership proceedings in 1923, in which the defendant Union Land & Cattle Company and the receiver were appellees. A full history of the…