Van Zandt v. Fort Worth Press

How courts have described this case

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

• holding personal service contract is done personally by a particular individual versus a contract for services performed by a corporation
• stating that the term “services” has a rather broad and general meaning and it includes generally any act performed for the benefit of another under some arrangement or agreement whereby such act was to have been performed
• “Statutory provisions for the recovery of attorney’s fees are in derogation of the common law, are penal in nature and must be strictly construed”
• “Statutory provisions for the recovery of attorney’s fees are in derogation of the common law, are penal in nature and must be strictly construed”
• examining the ordinary meaning of “services”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).