Theresa Plant v. Blazer Financial Services, Inc. Of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1979-07-23

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RONEY, Circuit Judge: In this truth-in-lending case, we resolve two important issues to this field of the law. First, we decide that an action on the underlying debt in default is a compulsory counterclaim that must be asserted in a suit by the debtor on a truth-in-lending cause of action. Second, we hold that a successful plaintiff in a truth-in-lending suit is entitled to have her attorneys paid from the award for attorn…

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