Canadian Bank of Commerce v. Wood

93 P. 257, 13 Idaho 794, 1907 Ida. LEXIS 93
CourtIdaho Supreme Court
DecidedDecember 31, 1907
StatusPublished
Cited by5 cases

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Bluebook
Canadian Bank of Commerce v. Wood, 93 P. 257, 13 Idaho 794, 1907 Ida. LEXIS 93 (Idaho 1907).

Opinion

STEWART, J.

On August 3, 1907, Judge Fremont Wood, judge of the third judicial district of the state of Idaho, sitting at chambers, at Wallace, Shoshone county, Idaho, and -within the first judicial district of the state of Idaho, filed in said court the following order or judgment:

[798]*798 “In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Idaho, in and for the County of Shoshone.
“GEORGE B. McAULEY, and VAN B. DeLASHMUTT, Plaintiffs, v. THE COEUR d’ALENE BANK, a Corporation, Defendant.
“DECREE.
“Be it remembered, That the above-entitled action came on to be heard before the judge of the above-entitled court, sitting at chambers in Wallace, Idaho, on the 20th day of April, 1907; the Honorable Fremont Wood, Judge of the Third Judicial District of the state of Idaho, presiding at the request of the Honorable W. W. Woods, Judge of the above-entitled court, said judge of the above-entitled court, being disqualified by reason of the fact that he had been attorney for the Receiver of the said bank and the said receiver, Abner G. Kerns, being personally present and represented by his attorney, J. H. Forney, John P. Gray and Henry S. Gregory; and Joseph P. Keane, claiming to be a creditor of the said bank being personally present and represented by his attorney, Albert H. Featherstone, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce, claiming to be a creditor of said bank and being represented by its attorney, Samuel R. Stern, and George Stewart, claiming to be a creditor of said bank being represented by his attorney, A. H. Conner, and John Reedy, Alexander E. Mayhew, Mrs. E. J. Jackson and Edward Doyle, claiming to be creditors of said bank being represented by their attorneys, A. H. Conner, Walter H. Hanson and James A. Wayne; and all of the persons so interested or claiming to be interested thereupon consented to the hearing of all matters in connection with the said action before the said court and the said judge sitting in chambers on the said day, and no objection being made, the court proceeded to hear the said cause on the report of the Receiver, filed the 14th day of January, 1907, and upon the petitions of Joseph P. Keane, George Stewart and John Reedy, Alexander E. Mayhew, Mrs. E. J. Jackson and Edward Doyle, and the complaint and records and files in the [799]*799said action, and evidence was introduced and heard by the court, and after argument of counsel for the respective parties present, the court took the said cause under advisement.
“And now, at this time, the court having fully considered the said cause and being advised in the premises, and having made its finding of fact and the conclusions of the law therefrom,
“It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:
“1. That the former order of this court dated the 20th day of April, 1907, ordering, adjudging and decreeing that the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) be fixed and allowed as the sum of money to be paid to the said Receiver for his compensation and expenses in the employment of counsel, and that the same be in full payment for all services rendered to April 20th, 1907, and for such other services as may be rendered in the ordinary administration of the said estate, and directing the said Receiver to pay the said sum of money for the said services be and the same hereby is confirmed and made a part of this decree; and that the former order of this court, dated April 20th, 1907, ordering, adjudging and decreeing that the expense account of the Receiver for moneys expended by him as such officer up to and including the 14th day of January, 1907, amounting to the sum of Four Hundred Eighty Dollars and Thirty-two Cents ($480.32) be allowed, is hereby confirmed and made a part of this decree.
“2. That the claim of the Bank of British Columbia, amounting to the sum of Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred and Five Dollars and Forty Cents ($14,405.40) principal, be and the same is hereby disallowed, and that the said Canadian Bank of Commerce, claiming to be the assignee and successor in interest of the said Bank of British Columbia receive nothing from the said Receiver.
“3. That the claims of Joseph P. Keane, and each and all of them be and the same are hereby disallowed, and that the said Joseph P. Keane receive nothing from the said Receiver on account of said claims.
“4. That the said Receiver proceed to close the administration of the affairs of the said Coeur d’Alene Bank; that [800]*800a notice be published for a period of - weeks in the ‘Idaho Press’ a weekly newspaper published at Wallace, Idaho, and in ‘The Times,’ a daily newspaper published at Wallace, Idaho, directing the creditors of the said bank to apply to the said Receiver for the payment of their claims and that the said Receiver pay the said claims, together with interest, in proportion as the assets in the hands of the Receiver bear to the entire amount of claims of the said creditors. That the said receiver also give personal notice in writing to such creditors whose address is known to him; that in the event any of the said creditors of the said bank do not apply to the said Receiver on or before the 1st day of -, 190-, for the payment of their said claims, the claims of such creditors as fail to make application on or before said first day of -, 190-, shall then be disallowed, and any moneys remaining in the hands of the said Receiver after said first day of-, 190-, shall be applied proportionately among these creditors who have appeared and applied for the payment of their claims, as in this decree provided in payment of any balance due upon their said claims and the interest thereon; and that the interest so to be paid by the Receiver is hereby fixed at the sum of - per cent per annum.
“5. That upon the distribution of the money in the hands of the said Receiver, as provided in this decree, and upon the filing by the said Receiver of proper vouchers showing the payment thereof, the said Receiver shall be entitled to be discharged.
“6. That the said Receiver be allowed the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250) for necessary expenses in closing the administration of the estate of the said bank, and in making the distribution as provided in this decree.
“7. That the report of the said Receiver, filed on the 14th day of January, 1907, be and the same is hereby approved except as by this decree modified.
“Dated this 27th day of July, A. D., 1907.
“FREMONT WOOD, Presiding Judge.
“Filed Aug. 3,1907.”

[801]*801Thereafter, and on the seventh day of October, 1907, the plaintiff herein filed a petition praying for a writ of certiorari to review said order or judgment. The writ was issued, commanding the defendant to certify to this court a full and complete transcript and record in said proceedings, on the eighteenth day of November, 1907, and was served upon the defendant hy acknowledgment of service on the fifteenth day of October. On the day set for the return, the defendant appeared and filed a motion to quash the writ upon a number of grounds, one. of which is that service of said writ was not made upon the parties in interest in the proceeding, as shown in the petition for the writ.

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