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the bill is multifariou.s, in that it embraces the controversy between the creditors and the First National Bank with respect to the in which matter Manahan has no interest, and also the controversy between the creditors and Manahan and Mary Fitzgerald over their rights and equities in the realty situated in Cook county, TIl., in which matter the bank has no interest. It is cleat' that these transactions have no connection with each other, and it must be held that they are improperly joined in the one suit. Gaines v. Chew, 2 How. 619. Leave is therefore granted to complainant to strike from the bill one Qr the other of these causes of action, retaining the bill as to the cause and parties thereto not thus stricken from the bill, the answer thereto to be filed within 30 days after the bill is amended by striking therefrom one of the causes now contained therein.
JESUP et al. v. WABASH, ST. L. & P. RY. CO. (Circuit Court, N. D. Ohio, W. D. COSTS-1I[ASTER'S FEE-RECOVERY OF INTEREST.
15, 1899.)
Where a decree which, among other matters, fixed the fee of a special master without objection as to its amount, and awarded execution therefor against one of the parties, is appealed from and reve,rsed, and the costs, including such fee, are taxed against the other party, the master is entitled to recover Interest from such party from the time his fee was allowed.
On Motion to Retax Costs. Rush Taggart, for Wabash, St. L. & P. Ry. Co. Brown & Geddes and Will'on & Warren, for Bluford Wilson. TAFT, Circuit Judge. In the foreclosure of the Wabash Railway Case, a claim of James Compton, on certain equipment bonds, set up in the intervening petition, was referred to Bluford Wilson, as special master, and to this reference the Wabash Railway Oompany, by order of the court, was allowed to become a party. On the 11th day of June, Bluford Wilson, as special master, filed his report finding that Compton's claim was valid, and was prior in right to certain mortgages under which the Wabash Railroad Company claimed. To this the Wabash Railroad Company filed exceptions. Judge Jackson sustained some of the exceptions, and overruled ethers. He found that Compton was not entitled to a resale of property, but only to the right of redemption over prior mortgages. 'The order made was that, if Compton failed to redeem the property, he should pay all the costs of the proceeding, including the fees of the special ma8ter, Bluford 'Wilson, fixed at $2,500, and, in default of payment, execution should issue; provided, further, that, if Compton should redeem the property, the costE of the proceeding, including the master's fee, should be taxed, one-third to Compton and two-thirds to the redemption fund, if paid into court, or to the Wabash Railroad, if a valid tender of redemption should be refused by said 'Vabash Company. From this decree Compton appealed to the circuit court of appeals, which court certi-
JESUP V. WABASH, ST. L. & P. RY. CO·
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.lied certain questions to the supreme court. The questions were answered by the supreme court so as to require the circuit court of appeals to enter a decree reversing the decree of the court below, which limited the remedy of <Jompton to the redemption, and finding that he was entitled to a resale, and for an accounting of the rents and profits of the railroad in the hands of the purchaser. The circuit court of appeals further ordered that the Wabash Railroad Company, the appellee, pay all the costs of the proceeding in said consolidated cases in the circuit court, court of appeals, and in the United States supreme court, already incurred, taxed or to be taxed, and, in default of such payment, that execution should issue therefor, and that, as to costs to be made from the circuit court of appeals, the circuit court should make such order as equity might require. Such a decree, in aecordance with this mandate of the circuit court of appeals, was entered in the circuit court, and, acting thereunder, the clerk has taxed the costs already incurred, and has included, as part of the costs, intere8t on the master's Tees of $2,500 from the 1st of July, 1892. The contention of the Wabash Railroad Company is that the interest item is wholly unauthorized. Section 966 of the United States Revised Statutes provides that "interest shall be allowed on all judgments in civil causes recovered in a circuit or district court and may be levied by the marshal under process of execution issued thereon in all cases where by the law of the state in which such court is. held interest may be levied under process of execution; and it shall be calculated from the date of the judgment at such rate as allowed by law on judgments recovered in the courts of such state." In Ohio, interest is allowed at the rate of 6 per cent. The claim by the Wabash Railroad Company in support of this motion is that the appeal of Compton, if it had the effect of setting aside the decree, left the claim of the master an unliquidated and unascertained claim, unsettled, subject to the approval of the court, which wa;;; not obtained until 1897. I am clearly of opinion that the interest ought to be allowed in favor of the master. There was no dispute over the amount due to the master. The only question was who owed it. l'nder the original decree, it was held that Compton owed the amount, and an execution might have issued in favor of the master against Compton at any time before the reversal. If such pxecution had iS8ued, the master would certainly have been entitled to recover interest against Compton, and, upon reversal, Compton would have been entitled to the costs which he had been obliged to pa,}' in the lower court, under its decree subsequently adjudged to be erroneous. If this be correct, then I can see no escape for the Wabash Compan,}' from payment to the master of the interest which the master might have collected from Compton, and which Compton, in that ca;;;e, might have collected from' the Wabash Company, under the decree. The fad that the master forebore to coIled his $2.500 until it was settled who should have to pay it is no reason' wh,}' he should not no';' tolled the full amount due him, with interest. judgment in his favor bas never been set aside. It has only been decided that the Wabasb Railroad Company is to pay it, instea'd of Compton. The Wabash Railroad Company has suffered nothing from the master's
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failrngt'O collect it from Compton. If he had collected it fromCompton, the Wabash Railroad CompanY' would have had to pay interest. I do not.see why it should not have to pay interest now. The claim is not ari. unliquidated, unas.eertaJned claim. It was never objected to, and never appealed from, in so far as its amount was originally adjudicated. The motion to retax the costs is overfuled.
ROBINSON
v. SOUTHERN NAT. BANK, Februar;Y6, 1899.)
(CirCUit Cou:rt, S. D. New York.
ApPEAl, BOND RECEIVER OF NATIONAL BANK - ApPEAL BY DIRECTION OF COMPTROLLER. . Under Rev. St. § 1001, as construed in Bank v. Mixter, 5 Sup. Ct. 944,
114 U. S. 463, no security need be given by a receiver of an Insolvent national bank on an appeal taken.hy direction of the comptroller of the currency.
On Application for an Order Dispensing with Security on Appeal. Edward Winslow Page, for oomplainant. Hornblower, Byrne, Taylor & Miller, for defendant. LACOMBE, Circuit Judge. In a rec'ent decision, filed December· 12, 1898 (Platt v. Adriance, 90 Fed. 772), this court discussed thequestion when security be dispensed with in accordance with the provisions of section .1001, Rev. St. U. 8. The conclusion reached was that security should '/:le dispensed with only when the process was issued or the appeal taken "by direction of any department of the government," and it was.directed in that case that, unless the plaintiff. should file a certificate of the comptroller of the currency to the effect that process was taken out by express direction of the treasury department, he should be required to file security for costs in the usual way. In that case no certificate of the comptroller of the currency was presented, but security for costs was duly filed. In the case at bar the plaintiff has filed a signed direction by the comptroller of the currency, requiring appeal to be taken. This paper. does not indica:te a direction by the treasury department. It is suggested that the comptroller of the currency is a department by himself, and not a branch of the treasury department. The statutes, however, do not seem to warrant this conclusion, and it is doubtful whether a "direction" of the comptroller of the currency is in fact a "direction" of the treasury department. It appears, however, that the supreme court, in Bank v. Mixter, 114 U. S. 463, 5 Sup. Ct. 944, held that, under section 1001 of the Revised Statutes, no bond for the prosecution of a suit, or to answer in damages or costs, is required on writs of error or appeals issuing from or brought to the supreme cQurt, by direction of the comptroller of the currency, in suits by or against insolvent national banks or the receivers thereof. The opinion in no way indicates the theory upon which the language of the section, "by direction of any department of the government," is thus construed, but practice court as therein indicated should be followed followed by the here. No security need be filed.