MERCANTILE TRUST CO. v. ROAD DIST.

No. 69.

275 U.S. 117 (1927)

MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY v. WILMOT ROAD DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 21, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George B. Rose, with whom Messrs. S.A. Mitchell, D.H. Cantrell, J.F. Loughborough, A.W. Dobyns, and A.F. House were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Robert E. Wiley for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a petition by the Mercantile Trust Company to be allowed $2,500 for its services in a foreclosure suit as trustee of the mortgage foreclosed and $7,500 paid to its counsel in the cause. The District Court found that the charges were reasonable, but disallowed them on the ground that they were not provided for in the statute creating the Wilmot Road District that...

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