PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. v. SPARLING

Docket No. 15622.

122 Cal.App.2d 221 (1953)

264 P.2d 648

PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., Plaintiff, v. MAURICE C. SPARLING, as Superintendent of Banks, etc., Defendant and Respondent; O'MELVENY & MYERS et al., Appellants; HERBERT BROWNELL, JR., Attorney General of the United States, as Successor to Alien Property Custodian, Intervener and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

December 22, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer I. Mitchell, Walter S. Hilborn and Herman F. Selvin for Appellants.

S.M. Saroyan for Defendant and Respondent.

Lloyd H. Burke, U.S. Attorney for Northern District of California, Valentine C. Hammack, Special Assistant to Attorney General, Mary Eschweiler and John F. Cushman, Attorneys, Office of Alien Property, Department of Justice, for Intervener and Respondent.


DOOLING, J.

This is an appeal from an order denying two motions to fix and award reasonable attorneys' fees to plaintiffs' counsel and to order such fees paid out of the assets in the hands of respondent Superintendent of Banks (hereinafter called the superintendent) which are available for the payment of interest upon the approved claims of depositors or creditors of The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. (hereinafter called the bank). The theory of appellants is that in...

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