Godwin v. Dorgan

Quincy W. Godwin and members of a similarly situated group of approximately 40 claimants in a property dispute (hereinafter the "Godwin claimants") appeal an order of the Baldwin Circuit Court denying their request that their attorney fees be paid out of a common fund created by the sale of the property. We affirm.

This case has a long history, and the claims underlying it were aptly described in this Court's opinion in McAllister v. Norville, 514 So.2d 1270 (Ala. 1987):1

"These appeals involve a dispute over the title to real property on Alabama's Gulf coast, known as `Navy Cove' or `Pilot…