First Atlantic Bldg. Corp. v. Neubauer Const. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It would be an anomaly to permit a party who breaches a contract to rely on the same contract to reimburse it for expenses, such as attorney’s fees, which arose out of the breach.”
• where contractor claimed both foreclosure of lien and damages for breach of contract and prevailed only on breach of contract, landowner could not be considered prevailing party for purposes of award of attorney’s fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).