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JESSER v. MAYFAIR HOTEL, INC.

No. 48586.

360 S.W.2d 652 (1962)

Jacob JESSER Benjamin Rosenberg; Oscar Miller, Joseph Jesser Meyer Perlstein, Charlotte Brownstein, Helen Asher, Norman Asher, and Harry O. Valleau and Angeline Valleau, doing business as Harry O. Valleau & Co., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MAYFAIR HOTEL, INC., a corporation, Lennox Hotel Company, a corporation, Heiss Securities, Inc., a corporation, C. Gordon Heiss, C. Gordon Heiss, Executor of the Will of Charles Heiss, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants, William S. Bedal, William C. Connett, J. L. Davis, and Clarence M. Turley, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold C. Ackert, John W. Giesecke, St. Louis, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Joseph H. Grand, Orville Richardson, St. Louis, for defendants, Mayfair Hotel, Inc., et al.

R. H. McRoberts, Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, St. Louis, for said respondents.

STORCKMAN, Judge.

These cross-appeals are from an order and judgment allowing plaintiffs' attorneys $80,000 as fees for services and $4,327.77 for expenses incurred in the prosecution of an equity action involving the construction of a voting trust agreement. One ground of defendants' appeal is that the allowance of attorneys' fees is excessive by at least $75,000, while the plaintiffs in their appeal assert that the allowance is inadequate in the sum of $60,000....

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