The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1923-06-01
JUDGE BALLARD
FLAYfS W|LOES

Leaving only the discharge Of Frank
l.. Wildes as receiver of the State
Bank & Trust Company to be written
as the final chapter In the hectic story
of Wildes' receivership of that insti-
tuition, Judge G. A. Ballard disposed of
three points today when he fixed the
salary of Attorneys Mack & Green at
$5625 for services as counsel for the
receiver from April 1, 1915, to April
80. 1923. allowed Wildes conmpensa-
tnon of $455O from April Is, 1921, to
April 80, 1928, and denied motion for
a new trial on compensation of the
receiver from the inception of the
receivership in 1908 to April Is, 1921.
Wildes had asked for compensation
at $333.33 month from April Is, 1921,
to April 30, 1923, and In reducing the
claim to $175 a month for two years
and an additional $3.50 for preparing a
final report Judge Ballard expressed
the opinion that "Mr. Wildes was a
sort of an aristocrat in business"
"He liked to think himself a cap
tain of finance or industry and con-
ceived his role to consist in a kinglike
ordering of his servitors whom he did
not in the least mind paying literally
out of the peoples treasury" Judge
Ballard says in his opinion.
He would not turn his hand to such
menial tasks as keeping books and
writing letters until he saw that he
would have to do 1t in order that his
own revenues might not suffer.
''It may be well enough for a man.
ager to give all his attention to the
larger affairs of a business whose
revenues justify it, but 1t cannot be
applied with any measure of success
to the operation of corner frocery."
IF the writer's predecessor were to
pass upon this question, as Mr.. wildes
might claim he should in justice to
have done, and had allowed what the
writer Is going to allow as compen-
sation, the receiver might have good
cause for complaint" the Judge says
of Judge F. P. Langan.
II conceive 1t that IL a. person has
to employ person whom he knows
Is asking a certain wage, his contin-
uing that person in employment with
out telling or intimating to him that
the services are rated too high, and
then, when the day of settlement
comes, giving him bit half of what
he, not without some reason exepcted,
the employee has some cause for
claiming shabby treatment"
In fixing compensation for the re-
ceivers attorneys the Judge declared
that the standpoint of the creditors
and the condition Of the estae should
be considered, says the Reno Gazette
The attorneys had asked for $4,000
for professional services rendered
from April 7. 1915, to April 80, 1923,
in addition to, $2s.500 previously al
lowed them for their services from
1908 to 1915. Judge Ballard concluded
that the allowance be $25 per month
for casual service, ordinary confer
ences and communications, for ninety
seven months and for handling bigger
cases sufficient to bring the total to
s5s25.
The court was foreclosed from re-
opening the question of compensation
allowed Wildes by Judge Langan pre-
vious to April l, 1915. the opinion to-
day states, since there was a relay of
almost fourteen months in calling up
the motion for a new trial on this
compensation. Such a delay is fatal
to the motion, Judge Ballard holds.
He declares, in closing, however,
that although ''the writer cannot find
anything in this administration to
which could be applied the epithet
dishonesty" but uneconomy there is
in all lavishness. Let me mention
some of the things that serve as the
basis for this criticism:
"The average monthly gross re-
ceipts filed as follows