Henn v. Clifford J. Heath, Inc.

This was a foreclosure suit, and the complainant is entitled to a final decree by default, and the solicitors of the complainant apply for a counsel fee to be paid to them instead of the retaining fee now allowed to counsel by statute, and that the same be included in the taxed bill of costs and collected with the other items of such bill. The firm of Henn Burr signed the bill as solicitors, and Mr. Henn himself signed as counsel. He himself is the complainant.

The question arises whether the complainant's solicitors are entitled to such counsel fee, when the complainant is a lawyer and a…