Dalton v. Gill

How courts have described this case

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• upholding award of punitive damages in suit for intentional interference with prospective business advantage
• upholding award of punitive damages in suit for intentional interference with prospective business advantage
• stating that if client’s decision to terminate attorney “is the result of coercion or misrepresentation practiced by others, the intervenors are answerable in law as anyone else would be liable for causing the rupture of a binding contract.”
• \`the law has long been settled that contracts for [contingent] fees are lawful and enforceable by the courts'\
• “ ‘the law has long been settled that contracts for [contingent] fees are lawful and enforceable by the courts’ ”
• punitive damages of $15,000 reduced to $5,000 in interference with contract suit where compensatory damages were $10,000

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).