Elijah v. Fender

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the broker's \actions were the very cause of the [plaintiffs'] defeat in [the action with the third party]\
• noting that the broker's \actions were the very cause of the [plaintiffs'] defeat in [the action with the third party]\
• holding that it is not mandatory that the plaintiff have prevailed in the earlier litigation in order to seek damages under the wrong-of-another doctrine, and noting that the defendant's misconduct had been the very cause of the plaintiff's defeat in the earlier litigation
• holding that it is not mandatory that the plaintiff have prevailed in the earlier litigation in order to seek damages under the wrong-of-another doctrine, and noting that the defendant's misconduct had been the very cause of the plaintiff's defeat in the earlier litigation
• holding that property sellers were allowed to recover from their real estate broker the attorney fees that they had expended in a suit against a third party when the broker caused that suit by breaching his fiduciary duties to the sellers
• noting that the wrong-of-another doctrine doesn’t require “that a party be a defendant in prior litigation to recover costs” or “that the party prevail in the earlier litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).