Schnucks Carrollton Corp. v. Bridgeton Health & Fitness Inc.

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• prevailing party requested attorney's fees, and pleaded and adduced evidence concerning its attorney's fees at trial
• “Section 408.020 allows interest on payments due under an oral agreement if a demand has been made.”
• only “reasonable” fees are allowable under a fee-shifting provision of a contract
• landlord’s consent to tenant’s occupancy creates month-to-month tenancy without requirement of writing
• where contract provided for fee-shifting, prevailing party was “entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees” (emphasis added), and the “trial court is an expert on attorney’s fees and does not require any evidence or other opinion as to their value.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).