Jacobsen v. Jacobsen

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 hus band should pay her attorney $200 as counsel fees. The attorney thereafter assigned his interest in the judgment to the plaintiff, and, when the amount was not paid, she filed suit therefor as assignee of the attorney.

At trial the defendant did not…