SECURITY-FIRST NAT. BANK v. BANK OF AMERICA, ETC., ASS'N

No. 9262.

111 F.2d 50 (1940)

SECURITY-FIRST NAT. BANK OF LOS ANGELES v. BANK OF AMERICA NAT. TRUST & SAVINGS ASS'N et al. In re F. P. NEWPORT CORPORATION, Limited.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 15, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. C. Shelton and George W. Burch, Jr., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Edmund Nelson, Hugo Steinmeyer, Wm. H. Neblett, and J. Merrill Brown, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order in bankruptcy directing payment of attorney's fees from certain oil lease proceeds as compensation for legal services rendered in defending the bankrupt's title to the land from which the oil lease proceeds were derived.

F. P. Newport Corporation, Ltd., referred to herein as Newport Corporation, became indebted to Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, referred to herein as the Bank, and conveyed...

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