Baltimore City Lodge No. 3 of Fraternal Order of Police, Inc. v. Mantegna

ADKINS, Judge.

Appellee, Eva Marie Mantegna (Mrs. Mantegna), sued appellant, The Baltimore City Lodge No. 3 of the Fraternal Order of Police, Inc. (FOP), in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. She sought to recover counsel fees that she incurred in the course of obtaining a divorce from her former husband, Joseph Mantegna, an FOP member. She asserted her claim against FOP as a third-party beneficiary of a pre-paid legal plan established by FOP for its members. She recovered a judgment in the amount of $4,710.

On appeal from that judgment FOP asserts that

1. The ad damnum clause in Mrs.…