Court Opinion

ID: 9417340
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 20:09:00.882809+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:41:25.078335
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Miller
dissenting..
While I agree, to the decree of the court in this case, I do not agree to the opinion, so far as it is an argument in favor of a principle on which is founded the grossest judicial abuse of the present day; namely, the absorption of a property or a fund which comes into the control of a court, by making allowances for attorneys’ fees and other expenses, pending the litigation, payable out of the common- fund, when it may .-be finally decided that the party who employed the attorney, or incurred the costs, never had any interest in the property or fund in litigation.
This system of paying from a man’s property those engaged-in the effort to wrest it from him can never receive my approval ; and as I have had no opportunity to examine the authorities cited in the opinion, I can do no more than protest against the doctrine.