South Sanpitch Co. v. Pack

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “when the natural consequence of one’s negligence is another’s involvement in a dispute with a third party, attorney fees reasonably incurred in resolving the dispute are recoverable from the negligent party as an element of damages”
• holding the third-party litigation exception applies where the plaintiff “seeks only those fees incurred in litigation against others to undo the problem [the defendant] negligently caused”
• noting that recovery of attorney fees under the third-party tort rule requires success on an underlying tort claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).