Powell v. Henry

A. D. McAllister, Jr., Special Justice,

concurring in part, dissenting in part. On this second appeal in this case appellants claim that the allowance of attorney’s fees in the amount of $95,884.31 to three attorneys whose efforts in a taxpayers’ class action had established a common fund of $639,226.24 was improper and excessive. The first appeal is reported in Henry v. Powell, 262 Ark. 763, 561 S.W. 2d 296 (1978), wherein this court reversed an appeal from the regular chancellor’s1 order setting aside a special chancellor’s order (initially allowing the fee) for want of an appealable order.…