Case Name: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ricky D. PATTON, Donald Beavers, Jeffrey S. Shewcraft, and Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1981-11-06
Citations: 631 S.W.2d 850
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ricky D. PATTON, Donald Beavers, Jeffrey S. Shewcraft, and Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees.
Judges: Before COOPER, HOWARD and WIL-HOIT, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 631
Pages: 850–851

Head Matter:
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Ricky D. PATTON, Donald Beavers, Jeffrey S. Shewcraft, and Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
Nov. 6, 1981.
Withdrawn and Reissued March 19, 1982.
Discretionary Review Denied May 18, 1982.
J. David Boswell, Hardy, Terrell & Boswell, Paducah, for appellant.
J. Wendell Roberts, Westberry & Roberts, Marion, for appellee Patton.
George R. Effinger, Paducah, for appel-lees Beavers and Grain Dealers Mut. Ins. Co.
Joe Owen, Benton, for appellee Shew-craft.
Before COOPER, HOWARD and WIL-HOIT, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION AND ORDER DISMISSING
WILHOIT, Judge.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company appeals from an order of the Crittenden Circuit Court awarding a fee to the attorneys for the appellee Ricky D. Patton out of the recovery of basic reparation benefits that had been paid by State Farm. The appellant has failed to include the attorneys for the appellee Patton as parties to this appeal, although their presence is indispensable for appellate review of the order. See Wilhelm v. Wilhelm, Ky., 504 S.W.2d 699 (1973); Coyle v. Horseman's Executrix, 271 Ky. 100, 111 S.W.2d 590 (1937); Bartlett v. Louisville Trust Co., 212 Ky. 13, 277 S.W. 250 (1925); Beaver v. Beaver, Ky.App., 551 S.W.2d 23 (1977). Despite the appellant's assertion to the contrary, this Court's opinion in Meridian Mutual Insurance Co. v. Walker, Ky.App., 602 S.W.2d 181 (1980), does not stand for the proposition that an attorney is not a necessary party to an appeal in which the fee to be paid him is in issue. The failure of the attorneys to be named as parties to the appeal was neither raised nor considered by the Court in that case.
Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the appeal be, and it is hereby, DISMISSED.
Because of this action, we find it unnecessary to rule on the appellant's motion to require the appellee Patton to release recovered monies, which motion was passed to this panel for consideration with a determination on the merits.
All concur.