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LAWYER REDUCES HIS OWN FEE BY $10,000 Knoxville, Dec. 23.-(Special.) - A lawyer has declined a fee of $25,000. He is John W. Green, of Knoxville. That was the sum allowed him for his services as receiver for the Knoxville Bank & Trust company. He voluntarily cut the amount to $15,000. No, the world didn't come to an end Dec. 17, but some strange things are happening. The fact was brought out during the hearing on the exceptions to the fees allowed by the special master for attorneys in the celebrated bank failure case. Mr. Green insisted that the attorney's fees, as well as the receiver's fees, as allowed by the master, were "entirely too high," and the lawyers' compensation be cut from $62,000 to $41,000. This was overruled by Chancellor John J. Jennings, Jr., who heard the arguments and depositions in the case. Chancellor Jennings ruled that the fees were justified by the large amount of work done throughout the seven years the case was In the courts. The case may be carried to the supreme court. In seeking to lower the fees, Mr. Green admitted that they were not out of proportion to thos usually charged and allowed to be charged in Tennessee. He declared, however, that the whole system of fees in the state is "entirely too high." He admitted that he is known as a "low fee man."