The principal issue litigated on this appeal is whether the record supports an attorneys' fee award of $26,000 payable out of a $525,255 fund resulting from plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment which was essentially unopposed by defendants. The fund resulted from a recomputation of death benefits payable to members of the class because of retroactive pay increases mandated by the Court of Appeals in Patrolmen's Benevolent Assn. of City of N. Y. v City of New...
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