Institution for Savings v. Inhabitants of Brookline

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]here is no room for the practice of „vicarious generosity‟ . . . and that so far as receivers and trustees and their attorneys . . . are concerned, they can neither expect nor be paid more than „moderate compensation.‟”
• “As receivers and their counsel are officers of the court, acting by designation of the court in aid of its task of administering an estate, they are entitled to be compensated for their services and reimbursed [their] out of pocket expenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).