City of Cottleville v. St. Charles County

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• Missouri follows the “American Rule” which generally provides that each litigant must bear the expense of his or her attorneys’ fees unless fees are authorized by statute or contractual agreement.
• referring to the principle as the collateral litigation exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).