State Ex Rel. Burk v. City of Oklahoma City

SIMMS, Justice:

This appeal by the City of Oklahoma City arises from an order fixing the amount of attorney’s fees to be paid from a common, equitable fund created for the City through the efforts of attorneys for named appel-lees. A history of this litigation and authority of the trial court to award attorney fees from the equitable fund is found in State ex rel. Burk et al. v. City of Oklahoma City et al., Okl, 522 P.2d 612 (1974). See, also State ex rel. Burk et al. v. City of Oklahoma City, Okl., 556 P.2d 591 (1976).

The sole issue to be decided in the instant appeal is whether or not the…