Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-12-07
MASSEY AND SUMMERFIELD
THINK $4,000 REASONABLE
Judge Langan Listens Arguments and Testimony in N
ReceverShip Case and End is Not Yet
In Sight

, proper fee for such services. The
reply was $3.50. Mr.. ChartZ followed
tais line of questioning further in an
effort to convince the witness and the
court that the results of the services
of the attorneys for the receiver as
regarded the moneys collected by the
receiver should figure largely in the
fee to be allowed for the said serv-
ices
/ Following Mr.. Summerfeld Judge
Massey took the stand and stated
! that he had heard the previous ques-
tions and answers and that he be-
lieved that fee of $4,000 was suffi-
cient compensation for the services
rendered provided the facts as pre-
scented 10 him were true. Mr.. Massey
stated that he knew practically noth-
ing of the case, but from the time
that the attorneys had stated mad
been consumed in preparing the mat
ers and attending the various sessions
of the court on business connected
with the matters of the case that he
considered that the fee was reason
able. Mr.. Boyd had previously stat
ed that the time occupied by the firm
of Boyd & Salisbury extended over a
period of at least and One-half
months of actual work.
Mr.. Chartz questioned Judge
Massey along the same lines as that
conducted in the case of Mr.. Sum-
merfeld and received practically the
same information both attorneys
agreeing IN the values of certain SER
vices of nature like the one under
discussion.
During the examination of Mr..
Massey Mr. Chartz livened up matters
somewhat by stories intending to
convey tae points he wished to bring
out, but found his witness equally
able to protect himself in this line
of thought Mr. Massey testified that
the min. mum fee that could be eX-
pected for drawing q writ of pro-
hibitiOn he would consider $1,000.
He stated that he knew of other cases
in which the firm of Boyd and Sails-
bury were engaged during the time
that the receivership case had been
in their hands but did not know how
much of their time had been used
on these other cases.
Following Mr.. Massey Mr. Boyd ex-
plained an error that had crept into
the final report and after explaining
the same the correction was accept
ed by both sides and the court.
Mr. Boyd then called Frank Golden
to the stand to find out if the latter
had ever collected any money from
the sale of hay or other produce or
from pasturage from a ranch owned
by the n. & o. bank in Churchill
county. Mr.. Golden stated that De
Armand the foreman of the property
had sent him postal orders to the
amount of $124. Golden stated that
he had placed the money on deposit
in the First National Bank of this
city to the credit of the receiver, but
had failed to notify him of this action
believeing that this notification would
be made by an officer of the bank.
When asked regarding an order of
the court ordering that no one out
side the receiver should have any
thing to do with the affairs of the
N. & o. bank Golden stated that the
money had been sent to him in his
name and that he had deposited 1t
to the credit of the receiver.
Chartz then took Golden in hand
and the latter recited many things
as regarded the legal end of the af-
flair from his knowledge and finally
stated thaat he considered that fee
of 5000 would be ample for the serv-
ices rendered. He stated that other
attorneys had assisted in the matter
and that their fee had been but $500.
At the same time Boyd had stated
that their fee would be $1,000 and
from that time on the two men had
been at outs Golden having stated
that the fee desired by Boyd was