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- Title: Jones
- Author : Supreme Court Of Utah
- Release Date : January 06, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
Description
Defendant Jerilyn Shelton Dawson appeals from a judgment for attorney fees entered against her based on findings that plaintiff law firm Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and McDonough did not establish a "cap" on its attorney fees for representing Dawson in her divorce action. She assails the trial court's decision that collateral estoppel and res judicata barred her from relitigating in this action the amount of attorney fees which the divorce court found reasonable in the underlying divorce action. The judgment awarded plaintiff fees for the trial and appeal representation of Dawson in her divorce action, together with interest and court costs, and granted plaintiff foreclosure of its attorney's lien on her residence. Plaintiff cross-appeals from the trial court's judgment that it is not entitled to attorney fees for pro se representation in this collection action against Dawson and from the court's ruling during trial that Dawson's general denial in her answer was sufficient to raise a defense on that issue.