Smith v. Stuckey

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• attorney fees could not be based on bad faith where there was no showing that defendant “acted through ill will or furtive design” in his performance of the underlying contract
• “Since there was no evidence from which a jury could find that the contract was made in bad faith or [had been] breached ... as a result of some sinister motive, the award of attorney’s fees cannot be sustained on the basis of bad faith . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).