Brooks v. Rose

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, in a lawsuit involving the breach of a partnership agreement, the defendant partners could not recover attorney fees because those fees were not a proper element of damages for that breach
• “Exceptions to the prevailing doctrine that attorney fees are not recoverable must be narrowly construed.”
• “Recovery has been allowed in limited situations where a party has incurred legal expenses as a result of another party’s fraudulent or unlawful conduct.”
• e.g., fraud, malicious prosecution, and false imprisonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).