JACOBSEN v. JACOBSEN

No. 1544.

108 A.2d 382 (1954)

Virginia JACOBSEN, Assignee of Samuel Gordon, Appellant, v. John S. JACOBSEN, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin E. Perlis, Washington, D. C., with whom John A. Patalano, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

John James Bernard, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


QUINN, Associate Judge.

In August 1952 in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, plaintiff filed a suit for divorce, and paid her attorney a fee with the understanding that he would reimburse her if the court should allow attorney's fees in her favor. A decree of divorce was granted to plaintiff, and it provided that the defendant husband should pay her attorney $200 as counsel fees. The attorney thereafter assigned...

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