United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustee v. Mimi Shapiro and Mortimer A. Shapiro, Nest & Co., Executive Life Insurance Co.

This appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (David N. Edelstein, Judge) in an interpleader action brings back to this Court the efforts of a class representative to obtain an attorney’s fee from the inter-pleader fund. On the prior appeal, we considered the merits of a dispute between two groups of holders of debentures issued by UV Industries. United States Trust Co. v. Executive Life Insurance Co., 791 F.2d 10 (2d Cir.1986). Both groups claimed entitlement to three interest payments made to the indenture trustee. We affirmed Judge Edelstein’s…