Opinion ID: 1160469
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Vitale is Entitled to Full Reasonable Attorney's Fees.

Text: The trial court held that because Vitale could recover from Joyner as a third-party beneficiary of the Karpinia-Joyner contract, the attorney's fee provisions in the original deed of trust and promissory note were inapplicable. The court granted Vitale partial attorney's fees under Rule 82 instead of full attorney's fees under the terms of the original agreements. Vitale claims that this holding was erroneous. Joyner took the property subject to the deed of trust terms which provided security for the debt to Vitale which Joyner promised to pay in an agreed amount. Joyner's contract with Karpinia, therefore, incorporated the rights and obligations of the Vitale-Karpinia deed of trust. Because the Karpinia-Joyner contract did not revoke the attorney's fee provisions of the deed of trust, those attorney's fee provisions bind Joyner. [4] We reverse the superior court's award of attorney's fees under Rule 82 and remand for an award of full reasonable fees under the terms of the Vitale-Karpinia deed of trust.