Legal Opinion

Stipe v. Mullendore

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided December 31, 1975No. Nos. 74-1778, 74-1779PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HILL, Circuit Judge.

This case presents questions resulting from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma awarding attorneys’ fees of $365,000 to appellants, Gene Stipe and Willard Gotcher, and their two associates, Howard Edmondson1 and Irvine Ungerman. These fees were awarded for the services of the four attorneys in representing Eugene and Kathleen Mullendore (hereinafter the “senior Mullendores”), debtors not in possession,2 in a Chapter XI proceeding.

On November 5, 1970, appellants were employed by the senior Mullendores to collect all or as much…

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3Cited by1 opinion

Mullendore v. MullendoreCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1975