Crane v. Gurnee

Howell, Y. C.

The bill in this case was filed to foreclose a mortgage covering lands of the petitioner. The respondents are the complainant’s solicitors. When the suit had reached the stage of an order for substituted service of process on non-resident defendants, the petitioner made a sale of the mortgaged premises and sought to have the foreclosure suit ended. He directed his own solicitor to ascertain the amount of the fees and charges of the complainant’s solicitors. These were reported to him by the complainant’s solicitors to be the sum of $114.22. This included the total charge for…