Roggemann v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing attorney’s fees award in part because trial court relied on hearsay affidavits to assess attorney’s fees over appellant’s objection
• “A ‘reasonable attorney’s fee’ is an unliquidated item of damages because testimony must be taken to ascertain facts upon which a judge or jury can base a value judgment.”
• “A ‘reasonable attorney’s fee’ is an unliquidated item of damages because testimony must be taken to ascertain facts upon which a judge or jury can 3 base a value judgment. A trial is necessary to establish unliquidated damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).