Penney v. First National Bank of Boston

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• affirming award of attorneys’ fees to bank where note provided that debtor would pay all costs of collection and enforcement on default, and defense of plaintiff’s claims in litigation was essential to the collection process
• promissory note provided that plaintiff would “would pay all costs of collection and attorney’s fees paid or incurred by the bank” [emphasis supplied]
• attorney’s fees and costs associated with counterclaims and defenses of claims asserted by debtor are recoverable by note holder
• attorney’s fees incurred in enforcing note recoverable when underlying note called for such recovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).