One of the longest-surviving cases in Palm Beach County is nearing its death rattle after the Fourth District Court of Appeals settled an attorney fee fight Wednesday, ruling that the owners of two shopping centers in Juno Beach and Brooksville can keep a $1.2 million fee award.

Litigation began in 1995, when Delray Property Investments Inc. and SOSQ Property Investments accused two Florida entities of defrauding them by receiving $144,000 in commission for the sale of the properties — betraying a profit-sharing agreement the two parties had set up.