Dent v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court had jurisdiction to award attorney’s fees more than 3 months after the appeal of the case in chief because the award of counsel fees was a matter collateral to the main cause of action
• \A litigant ought not be penalized for innovation or exploration beyond existing legal horizons unless such exploration is frivolous.\
• even after appeal perfected, trial court not precluded from proceeding as to collateral matters

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