Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Slayton

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Mo-Pac) from final judgment requiring Mo-Pac to pay attorneys’ fees of plaintiffs’ counsel aggregating $548,161.00 and $41,926.13 expenses incurred by such attorneys, all in connection with four companion suits identified in the caption hereto, brought by plaintiffs against Mo-Pac and others as a class action on behalf of named plaintiffs and all Class B stockholders of Mo-Pac for declaratory judgment.

The ultimate issue in controversy in the declaratory judgment action was whether Mo-Pac’s Class A and Class B…