Price v. Creole Petroleum Corp.

(732-733.) (dissenting). In view of the time expended, the amount involved, the skill employed and the result achieved, we think, that the allowance to plaintiffs Woodbury Farms and Realty Corporation and Suffolk Company, Ltd., for attorney’s fees and disbursements was inadequate. Through the efforts of plaintiffs’ attorney continued over a long period of time, a highly successful settlement during trial was obtained. Under its terms, Standard Oil Company returned to Creole Petroleum Corporation, the defendant in whose behalf the action was brought, 750,000 shares of Creole stock which had a…