Case ID: wash_70/html/0142-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 10085.
    Department Two.
    September 7, 1912.]
    
      In the Matter of the Receivership of the Spokane-Columbia River Railroad and Navigation Company.
    
    Receivebs — Compensation—Amount. Where the gross receipts in a receivership were $14,779, an allowance of $3,600 for receiver’s and attorney’s fees will not be disturbed on appeal, where the evidence was conflicting and the allowance appears to be just.
    Appeal from an order of the superior court for Spokane county, Yakey, J., entered May 30, 1911, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, fixing a receiver’s compensation, after a hearing before the court.
    Affirmed.
    
      B. C. Moshy, for appellant.
    
      Happy, Winfree & Hindman, for respondents.
    
      
      Reported in 126 Pac. 418.
    
   Per Curiam.

This is an appeal from an order fixing the compensation of a receiver. The only question presented is the compensation for receiver’s and attorney’s fees on final settlement of the receivership. The receiver was his own attorney. He appeals from the order.

The appellant demanded $10,000. The trial court allowed $3,600. The gross receipts of the receivership from all sources amounted to $14,779.68. The evidence of witnesses to the value of the services performed was conflicting. After reading the record, we conclude that the allowance made was liberal and should not be disturbed.

The judgment is therefore affirmed.