Price v. Cummings

Shaw, Judge:

This is a mortgage foreclosure action in which the respondent Frank Price is alleging nonpayment of a note and seeking attorney’s fees as provided in the note and mortgage. Both the Master in Equity and the Circuit Judge ordered the property to be sold and awarded $1,500 in attorney’s fees. We affirm.

Price and Cummings entered into a contract in November of 1976 whereby Cummings agreed to renovate Price’s home for the sum of $18,251. After $15,000 of the contract price had been paid but only 20-30% of the work completed, Cummings realized that he could not finish the job for the…