Court Opinion

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ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

May 11, 1994
Defendant/appellant, Southeastern Data Systems, Inc. has filed its Petition to Rehear this court’s opinion and judgment entered on 15 April 1994 on the ground that the court did not address the “defendant’s eounter-complaint of the attorney’s fees sought thereunder.”
While Southeastern Data Systems did not present any issue regarding attorney’s fees, they did in the conclusion of their brief “request that the trial court be reversed and since revocation was the remedy sought, the matter be dismissed and that SDS be awarded its attorney’s fees as sought in its counter-complaint and as provided for in the contract.”
While attorney’s fees may be recovered by a prevailing party when attorney’s fees are provided for by statute or by contract between the parties, Goings v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 491 S.W.2d 847 (Tenn.App.1972), defendant did not present the issue of its entitlement to attorney’s fees in its issues or at oral argument. Tenn. R.App.P. 13(b) provides in part that “review generally will extend only to those issues presented for review.” Since the issue of attorney’s fees, while referred to in the brief, was not presented as an issue, we decline to consider that issue.
It results that the Petition for Rehearing is denied at the cost of defendant/appellant Southeastern Data Systems, Inc.
/s/ Samuel L. Lewis SAMUEL L. LEWIS, Judge
/s/ Ben H. Cantrell BEN H. CANTRELL, Judge
KOCH, J., dissents.