Negro Nest, LLC v. Mid-Northern Management, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• de-nying attorney fees because the contractual provision did not specifically state that \attorney fees\ are recoverable; it merely provided that management company would be responsible for \all collection costs\ incurred
• surveying Illinois law applicable in a variety of contexts regarding whether attorney’s fees can be read into the term costs or the phrase collection costs and determining that such a reading was not reasonable
• “When faced with cost or expense-shifting provisions in contracts, Illinois courts have consistently refused to read attorney fees into imprecise language.”
• contract provision called for “all collection costs,” and “makes no mention of attorney fees,” so no attorneys’ fees were awarded, as “Illinois courts have consistently refused to read attorney fees into imprecise language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).