MERCANTILE-COMMERCE B. & T. CO. v. S. E. ARKANSAS L. DIST.

No. 11396.

106 F.2d 966 (1939)

MERCANTILE-COMMERCE BANK & TRUST CO. et al. v. SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS LEVEE DIST. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

October 31, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Merrick Moore, of Little Rock, Ark., and John M. Holmes and Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, all of St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

J. W. House, of Little Rock, Ark., and O. C. Burnside, of Lake Village, Ark., for appellees.

Before THOMAS and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges, and DEWEY, District Judge.


VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas allowing appellants the sum of $1,000 to cover the fees of their attorneys for services rendered in receivership and bankruptcy proceedings through a period commencing July 21, 1937, and continuing approximately for a year and a quarter thereafter. Appellants contend that this allowance granted is unreasonably inadequate compensation for the services...

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