Tenney v. City of Miami Beach

On August 3, 1942, the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, on petition of counsel in the case of A. M .Tenney, et al., v. City of Miami Beach, by an appropriate order held that the amount of a reasonable attorneys’ fee to be allowed by the Court under the law to the plaintiffs in said suit, based on the testimony adduced, was one-third of the amount re covered by or saved to the taxpayers, plaintiffs or parties to the suit. The same order referred the cases to a Master, with directions to take testimony on enumerated issues and report his finding, with recommendations. On August 29, 1942,…