Fleet Business Credit, LLC v. Krapohl Ford Lincoln Mercury Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an award of attorney fees under a contractual provision constitutes general damages that need not be specifically pleaded
• holding that such attorney fees are general damages, not special damages
• stating that a contractual provision for payment of reasonable attorney fees is judicially enforceable
• allowing fees because reimbursement provision’s scope included “any proceeding arising from or relating to this agreement.”
• “As a general rule, attorney fees are not recoverable as an element of costs or damages absent an express legal exception.”
• “[A]ttorney fees awarded under such contractual provisions are considered damages, not costs.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).