Colkett v. Hammond

Citations

• 101 Wash. 416
• 172 P. 548
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 848

Syllabus

<p>Receivers—Accounting—Ex Parte Orders—Validity. Ex parte orders, allowing fees and compensation to the receiver of an insolvent corporation and to his attorneys, and approving his final account upon tendering his resignation, entered without notice to any one hut the receiver and his attorneys, are void.</p> <p>Appeal—Decision—Ex Parte Orders—Remand eor Further Proceedings. Upon reversing void orders allowing compensation to a receiver and his attorneys because made ex parte, the supreme court cannot determine the merits, but must remand the case for a hearing upon notice to the parties interested.</p> <p>Costs—On Appeal—Unnecessary Record. Where appellant brings up an unnecessarily voluminous record, he will be allowed costs for only a reasonable portion thereof.</p>