Cooper v. Branch

How courts have described this case

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• issues of fact existed as to whether both defendant’s partial payments, and her retention of plaintiffs invoices “were, in fact, acquiescence to their correctness”
• “[W]ith regard to attorney fee arrangements, the courts, as a matter of public policy, give particular scrutiny to the reasonableness of the fee arrangements between attorneys and clients . . . .”
• “[W]e find ... the very nature of the provision, which permits the recovery of attorneys’ fees by the attorney should he prevail in a collection action, without a reciprocal allowance for attorneys’ fees should the client prevail, to be fundamentally unfair and unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).