Brown & Root U.S.A., Inc. v. Trevino

OPINION

OSBORN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an award of attorney’s fees awarded by the trial court to an attorney ad litem appointed to represent unknown heirs of a deceased workman in a suit for wrongful death. We reverse and remand.

Ezequiel Trevino, an employee of Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc., died from injuries received in an on-the-job accident when he was struck by a G. A. Culver Concrete Company vehicle being driven by Reginald Davis on March 12, 1985. Suit was filed in 1985 by Mr. Trevino’s parents and four surviving children. Brown & Root being aware from employment records that…