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DODSON v. TEMPLE HILL CHURCH

[No. 111, September Term, 1967.]

248 Md. 697 (1968)

238 A.2d 239

DODSON v. TEMPLE HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 9, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Mattingly, with whom was E. Harold Patterson on the brief, for appellant.

H. Hughes Spragins, with whom were Tomes, Spragins, McDonald & Sincoff on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and FINAN, JJ.

McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This extraordinary dispute concerns a lawyer's fee and the former client's success, so far, in foiling all efforts to collect it.

In the very early Fifties the Reverend William B. Adams (Adams) hired the appellant (Dodson) to collect a claim against the United States. The fee was to be contingent on Dodson's success. As a result of Dodson's efforts, Adams received $9,552 from the government but he refused...

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