In re Pedisich

There is before me the “Certificate and Report of Referee Relative to Petitions for Allowance of Attorneys’ Fees and Disbursements made and also relative to the Fixing of Court Costs.”

The findings of fact embraced within the Certificate and Report beginning on line 2 of page 26 and .ending with line 23 on page 34 thereof are approved and are adopted as the findings of fact of this Court except that the Court finds that the services rendered by each and all of the attorneys for the debtor in the actions instituted by Louis Hozz and Ettie Hozz in the Superior Court of the County of Sonoma, State of California, and in the case of Creedon v. Pedisich in this Court were not rendered and the costs incurred by them were not incurred for the benefit of or on behalf of the debtor estate and that said services were rendered and said costs were incurred solely for the personal benefit of said debt- or and other parties named with debtor as defendants.

I am unable to agree with the conclusion of the Referee or the recommendation which he has made relative to the allowance of attorneys’ fees to the several attorneys who appeared for the debtor in this proceeding and in the proceedings…