Reynolds Metals Co. v. Alperson

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the statute was “enacted to establish mutuality of remedy where [a] contractual provision makes recovery of attorney's fees available for only one party”
• holding plaintiff liable for attorney’s fees incurred by defendant in prevailing on defense of plaintiff’s contract claims, where contract provided only for attorney’s fees to plaintiff for collection of a promissory note
• finding that attorney’s fees need not be apportioned when incurred for representation on issue common to both a cause of action in which are proper and one in which they are not
• non-signatory party who was sued as alter ego of signatory party entitled to contractual attorneys’ fees
• non-signatory party who was sued as alter ego of 23 signatory party entitled to contractual attorneys' fees
• the prevailing party may recover attorneys’ fees only as they relate to some causes of action but not others

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).