Wrenfield Homeowners Ass'n v. DeYoung

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the association’s declaration clearly makes the defaulting homeowner liable for assessments plus the cost of collection for the amount in default to the associ ation, including attorneys’ fees
• treating homeowner’s association declaration as contract between homeowner’s association and its members
• trial court properly exercised discretion in assessing reasonableness of attorney’s fees claimed pursuant to contract
• trial court properly imposed attorney’s fees when it found that such fees were included in the phrase “costs of collection” in relevant agreement
• trial court properly exercised discretion in assessing reasonableness of attorney’s fees claimed pursuant to contract
• “ ‘costs of collection’ ” in a homeowners association covenant allows the association to recover its attorney fees upon suit to recover association dues; noting the phrase is synonymous with “attorney fees” in the context of promissory notes and negotiable instruments law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).