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· 3/7/1989

Estate of Wesley E. Smith v. Ware

Citations

  • 769 P.2d 773
  • 307 Or. 478
  • 1989 Ore. LEXIS 17

How courts have described this case

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  • holding, in a statutory fee case, that overlapping work is treated as going to the fee-generating claim
  • holding, in a statutory fee case, that overlapping work is treated as going to the fee-generating claim
  • holding, in a statutory fee case, that overlapping work is treated as going to the fee-generating claim
  • statutory fees can be awarded for work on both fee-generating and non-fee-generating claims, where work done on claim for which fee is authorized would have been incurred regardless of the non-fee-generating claim
  • defendant was entitled to all attorney fees because he “apparently incurred attorney fees in defending the unlawful trade practices claim that he would have incurred whether plaintiffs alleged a fraud claim or not”
  • attorney fees for unlawful trade practices under ORS 646.638(3)

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Judges: Peterson, Linde, Carson, Jones, Gillette, Van Hoomissen

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