· 10/28/2004
Price v. Tyler
Citations
- 890 So. 2d 246
- 2004 WL 2404056
How courts have described this case
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- holding that attorney fees as damages, although permissible in slander of title actions, were not allowed in a quiet title case
- holding that attorney fees as damages, although permissible in slander of title actions, were not allowed in a quiet title case
- holding that “actual or compensatory damages” does not include attorney fees and that “costs” “are not generally understood as including attorneys’ fees”
- holding that “actual or compensatory damages” does not include attorney fees and that “costs” “are not generally understood as including attorneys’ fees”
- explaining that parties cannot recover attorney fees as special damages that were accrued in declaratory relief and quiet title actions absent a slander of title
- “Under Florida law, each party is responsible for its own attorneys’ fees unless a contract or statute provides otherwise.”
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Judges: Lewis
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