Harry Smith Machine Company’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. ““The persons in whose interest the trustee seeks to have the attachment set aside' are the persons who expressly waived in writing in the composition proceeding the deposit of any money to pay the expenses of administration. They are the attorneys for the bankrupt, the attorneys for the trustee, both as attorneys for the trustee and as attorneys for petitioning creditors, and the trustee himself. If counsel choose to waive payment of their fees in order to make the sum so small that deposit can be made under a composition, so that the composition can be put through, this court is strongly opposed to their thereafter resuscitating their claims and insisting that they should be paid out of the estate. The bed they made for themselves they should lie in. If the bankrupt benefited by their waiver, being thus enabled to effect a composition, we think he is the one who should pay them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re G & G Appliance Co.