Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal deals only with the correctness of the judgment of the trial court awarding attorney' fees to the plaintiffs in this prisoner suit. It grew out of, and is a companion case to, Gates, et al., and United States v. John Collier,' Superintendent, etc., No. 73-1023, which is under submission to this Court.

In the original complaint, filed by counsel now seeking counsel fees, and later supported by the United States of America, which intervened in the trial court the principal allegations were:

There are two classes for whose benefit suit was brought by the named…