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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 365
    SWING v. SWING et
    Ohio Appeals, 1st Dist., Hamilton Co.
    No. 2700.
    Decided Nov. 30, 1925
    315. COSTS AND FEES — Court is not authorized to allow fees to counsel for a mortgagee when the property is sold on foreclosure.
    Attorneys — Jones & Pfau, Cincinnati, for Loan Co.
   PER CURIAM

The action in Hamilton Common Pleas was for partition. The Miami Savings & Loan Co. filed an answer and cross petition, praying for judgment.

Partition was abondoned, and judgment entered foreclosing the mortgage of the Savings & Loan Co. but not permitting assessing the attorneys fees. Error was prosecuted from this judgment, and the Court of Appeals held:

A court is not authorized to allow fees to counsel for a mortgage when the property is sold in foreclosure.-

Judgment affirmed.