Savino v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that assignee steps in shoes of assignor and obtains all rights and obligations of assignor, including chose in action, which is “ ‘[t]he right to bring an action to recover a debt, money, or thing’ ”
• stating well established principle that it is appellant’s burden to provide adequate record for review
• applying abuse of discretion standard to amount of attorney’s fees awarded and trial court’s determination of facts that justified award
• declining to consider claims raised for first time on appeal ‘‘because the plaintiffs never properly raised them in the trial court by pleading them in their complaint’’
• double damages under § 31-72 maybe awarded only upon finding of “bad faith, arbitrariness or unreasonableness” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[i]t is well established that we review the trial court’s decision to award attorney’s fees for abuse of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).