Blair v. Ing

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an action is in the nature of assumpsit where the claim arises out of the contractual relationship
• concluding that it would be impracticable to apportion fees where one of only two claims sounded in tort
• stating that “a defendant who succeeds in obtaining a judgment of dismissal is a prevailing party for the purpose of fees under HRS § 607-14”
• stating that, “[i]n the absence of opposition [regarding the reasonableness of costs], we presume the ... costs were reasonable”
• noting that the supreme court had upheld dismissal of the complaint because the defendant \owed Plaintiffs no duty\ as a matter of law
• allowing documented costs without inquiry into their reasonableness because “no opposition was received regarding the reasonableness of the costs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).