Court Opinion

ID: 9787411
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 00:16:00.236686+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:55.633008
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OPALA, J.,
dissenting.
11 The equity-evolved rule of Owens1 is improperly invoked today to impose a counsel-fee award on a defeated party who, while a tenacious and vigorous forensic champion of its claim, was not shown to have been guilty of litigation-related misconduct that could be termed abusive, oppressive or vexatious.
12 I would hence set aside the fee award as unauthorized by either statute or contract between the parties.

. City National Bank & Trust Co. v. Owens, 1977 OK 86, 565 P.2d 4.