Case ID: or-app_168/html/0556-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      EDMONDS, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

On respondent’s petition for reconsideration filed May 15,
    reconsideration allowed; original opinion (167 Or App 162, 2 P3d 929) adhered to June 28,
    both petitions for review denied October 4, 2000 (331 Or 193)
    Bhagwati P. PODDAR, Appellant, v. CLATSOP COUNTY, Respondent.
    
    (97-2092; CA A103154)
    7 P3d 677
    Charles H. Turner, Judge pro tempore.
    Blair J. Henningsgaard, Astoria, for petition.
    Bhagwati P. Poddar, pro se, contra.
    
    Before Edmonds, Presiding Judge, and Armstrong and Kistler, Judges.
    EDMONDS, P. J.
   EDMONDS, P. J.

Defendant petitions for reconsideration of our opinion in this matter, Poddar v. Clatsop County, 167 Or App 162, 2 P3d 929 (2000), arguing that we erred in designating plaintiff as the prevailing party. We grant reconsideration and adhere to our original, opinion. Plaintiff was successful on appeal in obtaining the vacation of the supplemental judgment for attorney fees against him. However, we held that the trial court had authority to reconsider the issue of attorney fees on remand. Id. at 172. “The right to recover costs on appeal is governed by the result on appeal, not by whether the party seeking costs obtains a favorable final judgment.” Akins v. Bucyrus-Erie Co., 118 Or App 471, 473, 848 P2d 124 (1993). Thus, plaintiff is the prevailing party on appeal, regardless of the trial court’s decision on remand.

Reconsideration allowed; original opinion adhered to.