MATTER OF FIRST COLONIAL CORP. OF AMERICA

Nos. 75-2260, 75-2644.

544 F.2d 1291 (1977)

In the Matter of FIRST COLONIAL CORP. OF AMERICA, Bankrupt. AMERICAN BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Franz J. BADDOCK, Trustee, Appellee-Cross-Appellant. In the Matter of FIRST COLONIAL CORP. OF AMERICA, Bankrupt. Bert K. ROBINSON, Appellant, v. AMERICAN BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 2, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd J. Falcon, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., Joe T. Pilcher, Jr., Selma, Ala., for American Benefit Life Ins.

Bert K. Robinson, W. P. Wray, Jr., Erwin A. La Rose, Baton Rouge, La., for Baddock.

R. Boatner Howell, Jr., pro se.

Franz Joseph Baddock, pro se.

Martin C. Schroeder, Jr., James F. Pierson, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for appellee-cross-appellant in No. 75-2260 and appellant in No. 75-2644.

Before COLEMAN, CLARK and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge:

These appeals challenge awards of priority fees made by the bankruptcy judge1 to the attorneys for the trustee and a petitioning creditor from the bankruptcy estate. In No. 75-2644, Robinson, an attorney for the trustee, complains that the bankruptcy judge should have been more generous. In No. 75-2260, American Benefit Life Insurance Company [American Benefit], which owns fifty-five percent of the outstanding stock...

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