272 F. 351 | M.D. Penn. | 1921
The Miners’ Bank of Wilkes-Barre has brought here for review the order of the referee, disallowing portion of its claim proven, in so far as the same relates to attorney’s commission on a note held by the bank against the bankrupt and others.
A promissory note, dated April 27, 1916, for $16,500, with interest at 6 per cent., payable to the bank, was executed and delivered to it by Phillip Harris, Sr., William Plarris, and John Reese. The note contained a power of attorney to enter and confess judgment It also provided allowance for an attorney’s fee:
“An attorney’s foe of 5 per cent, if collected by legal process.”
- That the attorney’s fee was not incorporated and made part of the judgment on entry or revival is not important here. The fee attached to the judgment in the event of collection by legal proceedings in proportion to the amount collected, and became part of it as costs to which plaintiff is entitled.
The report is referred bade to the referee, to make distribution agreeably, as herein indicated.