Court Opinion

ID: 3393231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 18:56:42.14359+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:10:44.710424
License: Public Domain

I concur in all that is contained in Mr. Justice ELLIS' opinion except condemnation of the attorney's fees allowance. It is a rash thing to presume that the attorney for the mortgagee intended his legal services as a gratuity to his client. If he did not, the law will imply an enforceable promise from the client to pay a reasonable fee for foreclosing the mortgage. Why cannot indemnity against what the law will imply as a recoverable attorney's fee be recovered in a case like this? I think it can be on the very principle which is cited to deny it, namely indemnification.
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