Cases: Nonsignatories – Page 3

Section 1717: $23,323.83 Fee Award Remanded For Recalculation Because Contract Claim Did Give Rise To Recovery, But Tort Claims Did Not

Re-Do Is Result in this One. Defendants prevailed in a mixed contract/tort cause of action, awarded $23,323.83 in attorney’s fees by the trial court in Choi v. Behrman, Case No. B239288 (2d Dist., Div. 7 Nov. 20, 2012) (unpublished). On appeal, the reviewing court determined the matter had to go back for a

Section 1717: Fee Award To Contract Nonsignatory Reversed Because Nonsignatory Cannot Recover Fees On Noncontract Claims

Cases: Landlord/Tenant, Cases: Nonsignatories, Cases: Section 1717

November 14, 2012

$49,500 Fee Award Reversed. Tenant must have felt pretty good after winning $49,500 in attorney’s fees under Civil Code section 1717 after Landlords voluntarily dismissed with prejudice a mixed contract/tort case after Tenant filed a summary judgment claiming that he was not a party to a leasing agreement and that his signature was