Union Central Life Ins. Co., Inc. v. Hamilton Steel Products, Inc., Tom Webb v. Agnes O'Brien

FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from orders awarding fees to two attorneys in an inter-pleader action to determine rights in a fund. Each attorney appeared for named defendants who were, respectively, sued as representatives of a class of claimed beneficiaries of the fund. The fees were ordered paid out of the fund. The appeal has been taken by other named defendants who also purport to represent some or all of the beneficiaries.

Much of the relevant history of the case appears in opinions on earlier appeals in the same case, 374 F.2d 820 (7th Cir. 1967), and 448 F.2d 501 (7th Cir.…