Coy Burnett & Mel Dar Corp. v. Graves

BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Having lost, then won, Burnett v. Mar-Tex Realization Corp., Tex.Civ.App., 250 S.W.2d 612, Burnett and his family corporation, Mel Dar Corporation now appeal from the judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding $80,000 (plus $5,-000 attorneys’ fees) to their attorneys1 for their successful reversal on appeal.

The nature of that litigation2 and its intrinsic merit is now of secondary importance. But even the briefest consideration of it is convincing that it was an important case in which the stakes were high presenting difficult questions *51challenging the resourceful…