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SHIMKO v. EASTERN STATES CORP.

[No. 45, September Term, 1958.]

218 Md. 362 (1958)

146 A.2d 891

SHIMKO ET AL. v. EASTERN STATES CORPORATION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 19, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer Shapiro, with whom were Nemerov & Shapiro, Harry O. Levin and Marshall A. Levin, on the brief, for appellants.

J. Crossan Cooper, Jr., with whom were Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Horace R. Lamb and LeBoeuf, Lamb & Leiby, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND and HORNEY, JJ., and HENRY, JR., Chief Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, dated March 13, 1958, which denied a petition for the allowance of counsel fees to the appellants' attorneys. The petition sought to require payment thereof by the appellee.

This suit was instituted on June 17, 1955, by several holders of preferred stock of the respondent-appellee, Eastern States Corporation (Eastern), a Maryland corporation...

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