Stutz v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• in a partition action, appellate court did not award other defendants’ attorney fees and costs because their counsel did not perform services for the common benefit of all the parties in the partition
• “ ‘[T]he purpose of the statute is to divide the cost of the legal services among the parties benefited by the result of the proceeding.’ Both appellant and respondent benefited from the proceedings and they should bear costs in accordance with their interest in the real property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).