CITY OF BALTIMORE v. BOWEN

No. 1062, September Term, 1982.

54 Md. App. 375 (1983)

458 A.2d 1242

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. JOSEPH N. BOWEN, JR.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Carlin, Assistant Solicitor of Baltimore City, with whom were Benjamin L. Brown, City Solicitor of Baltimore City, and Sheldon H. Press, Chief Solicitor of Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellant.

William H. Engelman, with whom were Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, P.A. on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., WILNER and BLOOM, JJ.


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

This began as a workmen's compensation case. The judicial phase of it commenced when claimant's counsel, dissatisfied with the fee awarded them by the Workmen's Compensation Commission, appealed to the Superior Court of Baltimore City seeking an order directing the Commission to award them a higher fee. The court was more than obliging; it not only ordered that the Commission award the higher fee sought by counsel, it...

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