Chatham Communications, Inc. v. General Press Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in the absence of a statutory authority or an agreement between the parties, there can be no recovery of attorney’s fees
• limiting Barnett’s allowance of counsel fees to actions for malicious abuse of process
• “It is axiomatic that the performance of an act which one party is legally bound to render to the other party is not legal consideration.”
• “[T]he performance of an act which one party is legally bound to render to the other party is not legal consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).