City of Rock Island v. Chippiannock Cemetery Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the exception applies \where the natural and proximate consequences of a wrongful act have been to involve the plaintiff in litigation with others\ (emphasis added)
• “At common law costs were never recoverable, nor was the successful plaintiff entitled to recover from the unsuccessful defendant his attorney fees or expenses of litigation as damages.”
• “The cases all confirm the rule that attorneys fees and expenses of litigation can not be recovered in a subsequent suit as damages by a successful plaintiff who has been forced into litigation by reason of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).