In re Rosenthal & Lehman

Citations

• 120 F. 848
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22

Syllabus

<p>3. Bankruptcy — Attorney for Bankrupt — Fees—Allowance.</p> <p>Under Bankr. Act, § 64b [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3447], providing that one reasonable attorney’s fee for professional services rendered to the bankrupt in involuntary cases, as the court may allow, shall have priority, and be paid in full from the bankrupt’s estate, the court may allow an attorney for the bankrupt in an involuntary proceeding for services actually rendered in good faith for the real purpose of impartially administering the estate.</p> <p>2. Same — Necessity—Good Faith — Proof.</p> <p>Where, in a proceeding for the allowance of attorney’s fees to involuntary bankrupts for representing them at their examination before the referee, and for being present and acting as counsel for them through such examination, there was no proof that the employment of counsel was reasonably necessary, and that the services were actually rendered in good faith to promote the purposes of the bankruptcy act, the claim should be disallowed.</p>