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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH et al. v. PRATT CONSOLIDATED COAL CO. et al.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    November 10, 1908.)
    No. 1,844.
    Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe United States for the Northern District of Alabama.
    Before PARDEE and SHELBY, Circuit Judges, and BURNS, District Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

The question involved in this case is whether sufficient compensation has been allowed lawyers who successfully conducted a litigation which brought into the hands of the trustee in bankruptcy a large sum of money for distribution among creditors. Tbe referee heard evidence and allowed 86,000. On review the District Judge, on the same and more evidence, reduced the allowance to $3,600. Under the evidence in the transcript, we are not prepared to say that either allowance was so far erroneous as to warrant a reversal. The decree of the District Court is affirmed.