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IN RE FERRELL

No. 2810.

172 A.2d 555 (1961)

In re E. Lewis FERRELL and Ned A. Perry, Appellants.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 5, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Thurman L. Dodson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, retired) sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b).

CAYTON, Acting Judge.

Two lawyers appeal from an order holding them in contempt for failure to pay to their opponent in a divorce case counsel fees which the court found had been entrusted to them for that purpose.

Messrs. Ferrell and Perry filed in behalf of their client Deloris Gross a suit for absolute divorce on the ground that her husband had been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude. Code 1951, § 16-403. As required by statute the trial...

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