Lyon v. Hires
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Baltimore City Court (Stockbridge, J.) By defendants’ second prayer, which was refused, the Court was asked to rule that the defendants are entitled to an allowance for counsel fees properly expended in realizing the fund from the estate of I. D. Clawson, and if the fund so realized after allowing counsel fees expended shall be less than the sum due by the plaintiffs to the defendants, the verdict must be for the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This is an action in assumpsit brought to recover a sum of money claimed by the appellees to be due .them from the appellants on account of certain transactions connected with the purchase of the steamer Edgecombe. It appears that by an agreement in writing, dated the ninth day of April, 1887, the appellants agreed to sell the steamer to the appellees for the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, the title thereof to pass only when the amount was paid. To secure the payment of the purchase-money, the appellees were to assign all their title in and to a reversionary interest held by them under…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- McGraw v. CantonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1891
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- Fritchey v. BosleyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1881
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