
    
      Opinion issued January 22, 1980
    
    JOHN S. HRKO vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR RIBEL & JULIAN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR J. M. TULLY vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JAMES C. RECHT vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR HAROLD S. YOST vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR ROY D. LAW vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR HAROLD B. EAGLE vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR GLENN O. SCHUMACHER vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JAMES M. CASEY vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR SIMMONS & MARTIN vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JOSEPH C. HASH, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR JAMES M. COOK, JR. vs. OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR
    
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      Henry C. Bias, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.
    
      
      The Court issued per curiam decisions in accordance with this decision granting awards to attorneys who served as counsel for indigents in mental hygiene hearings. The following is a list of those claimants and the awards granted:
      Martin V. Saffer . $ 324.25
      Roger D. Curry . 884.60
      T. Owen Wilkins. 295.00
      Dennis H. Curry. 100.00
      Loudoun L. Thompson . 112.50
      Charles E. Parsons. 177.50
      James T. McClure. 329.00
      Charles V. Wehner. 35.00
      Bradley H. Thompson . 7,426.47
      Robert E. Vital. 10,370.00
      Ann E. Snyder. 393.75
      Cynthia L. Dettman. 180.00
      Edgar E. Bibb, III. 70.00
      Peter A. Niceler. 123.52
      George W. Hill, Jr. 600.50
      Appalachian Research and Defense Fund. 387.95
      David G. Palmer. 511.00
      James A. Matish. 285.00
      Philip T. Lilly, Jr. 163.50
      James R. Sheatsley. 50.00
      Michael E. Caryl. 450.56
      Stephen L. Thompson . 202.30
      Norman T. Farley. 201.12
      H. F. Salsbery, Jr. 76.00
      Sam E. Schafer. 595.00
      William E. Simonton, III. 116.90
      Damon B. Morgan, Jr. 321.00
      William A. O’Brien. 80.00
      John L. DePolo. 347.50
      Rudolph J. Murensky, II. 307.50
      Robert DePue . 45.00
      
        C. Dallas Kayser. 497.03
      Richard Thompson . 200.00
      David R. Rexroad. 290.50
      Láveme Sweeney. 207.50
      Susan K. McLaughlin. 180.00
      Michael I. Spiker . 262.25
      George Zivkovich. 183.79
      David Lycan. 215.00
      Randy R. Goodrich . 64.57
      Michael H. Lilly. 382.35
      Robin C. Capehart. 460.00
      Paul T. Camilletti. 749.50
      JohnS. Folio . 130.00
      Jeffrey Corbin Dyer. 233.00
      Core, Atkinson & Core. 143.75
      James D. Terry . 34.00
      David Cavender. 37.50
      John Yeager, Jr. 873.40
      John L. Bremer. 1,848.00
      Wayne D. Inge. 407.50
      Maiy H. Davis . 205.50
      Thomas L. Butcher. 1,542.50
      Frank Ribel, Jr. 87.50
      James C. Blankenship, III . 522.50
      David P. Born . 145.84
      David Michael Fewell. 624.55
      James Bradley, Jr. 793.50
      David G. Underwood. 292.50
      Ronald F. Stein. 1,842.50
      James Wilson Douglas. 437.50
      Leslie D. Lucas, Jr. 112.50
      Paul S. Perfater. 764.50
      Wayne R. Mielke. 2,357.29
      William W. Pepper. 857.50
      Nancy Sue Miller. 351.00
      Janet Frye (Steele). 525.00
      H. H. Rose, III. 115.00
      Michael T. Clifford. 631.25
      William M. Miller . 655.45
      Robert Edward Blair. 100.00
      David M. Finnerin . 228.75
      Frank B. Everhart . 68.75
      Melvin C. Snyder, Jr. 45.00
      
        Frederick M. Dean Rohrig . 138.33
      Robert E. Wise, Jr. 699.52
      C. William Harmison. 172.50
      David L. Ziegler . 342.50
      F. Christian Gall, Jr. 1,088.00
      Mark A. Taylor. 205.50
      John J. Cowan. 703.75
      Bernard R. Mauser. 500.00
      Jeniver J. Jones . 432.25
      Steven C. Hanley . 1,067.50
      Harry A. Smith, III . 852.50
      Jay Montgomery Brown. 185.00
      Randall K. Dunn. 909.74
      Timothy R. Ruckman. 126.25
      Dan O. Callaghan. 170.00
      F. Malcolm Vaughan. 541.52
      William W. Merow, Jr. 185.00
      John W. Bennett. 176.10
      Samuel Spencer Stone. 55.00
      John G. Ours . 382.58
      Stobbs & Stobbs. 2,368.75
      Michael Buchanan. 47.50
      Karen L. Garrett. 230.00
      Robert D. Fisher. 50.00
      Edwin B. Wiley. 1,233.55
      C. Blaine Myers. 235.50
      Thomas C. Evans, III . 222.10
      Raymond H. Yackel . 45.00
      James A. Varner. 43.50
      George Zivkovich. 45.00
      David L. Hill. 70.00
      George Zivkovich. 80.00
      James A. Liotta. 75.00
      Samuel Broverman . 211.00
      James A. Esposito . 182.50
      Charles W. Wilson. 808.00
      Eugene R. White. 600.00
      Robert N. Bland . 400.00
      George M. Cooper . 825.00
      Jeniver J. Jones . 345.00
    
   PER CURIAM:

These claims have been consolidated by the Court on its own motion since all of the claims are governed by the same principles of law.

The claimants are attorneys who served as counsel for indigents in mental hygiene hearings pursuant to the provisions of West Virginia Code, Chapter 27, Article 5. Claimants’ fees were denied by the respondent because the fund was exhausted.

The factual situations in these claims are identical to that in Richard K. Swartling, et al. v. Office of the State Auditor, issued on November 5, 1979. Accordingly, the Court hereby grants awards to the claimants as follows:

JohnS. Hrko . $ 80.00
Ribel & Julian. 327.50
J. M. Tully. 62.50
James C. Recht. 122.00
Harold S. Yost. 135.00
Roy D. Law. 459.00
Harold B. Eagle. 115.00
Glenn O. Schumacher . 303.33
James M. Casey. 538.00
Simmons & Martin . 440.00
Joseph C. Hash, Jr. 160.00
James M. Cook, Jr. 111.69  