Edgell v. Felder’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. “• “This decree, however, is in favor of certain persons who were not technically parties to the suit, but whose appointment and employment therein had been authorized by the court to render designated service, and whose claims for compensation, on proper petition of the special- master and on due hearing, were fully adjudicated, and ordered to be paid out of the fund in the registry of the court, as a part of the costs of administration of the same. The decree provides for its immediate execution, by ordering that the clerk draw checks, for the signature of the judge, on the fund in the registry of the court, for the allowances made to the claimants. There being no immediate allowance of the appeal, with supersedeas, the decree was doubtless promptly executed, the payments made, and the fund in court thereby diminished to the extent of the sum of these payments. On the authority of Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U. S. 527 , 26 L. Ed. 1157 , and Railway Co. v. Bisbee, 13 U. S. App. 377, 6 C. C. A. 249 , 57 F. 66 , and the precedents on which these rest, we are constrained to hold that the decree appealed from is a final decree, within the meaning of the statute and decisions allowing appeals.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rector v. United States