Burnham v. Cooney

How courts have described this case

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• plaintiff must come forward with evidence supporting a dispute of the material facts to take a breach of contract claim to the jury
• a “party committing breach of contract cannot maintain an action against [an]other contracting party for failure to perform if promises are dependent”
• attorney was not entitled to summary judgment in his action for legal fees because the client raised a defense that the attorney had failed to comply with his contractual obligations
• “Where an attorney is entitled to be paid only after a particular result is procured, the attorney’s right of action does not accrue until . . . procurement of the result.”
• where attorney was entitled to payment of fees accrued during progress of litigation, rather than only at end of litigation, fees earned more than six years before filing of suit were time-barred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).