Patterson v. Curtis Publishing Co.

This is an action at common law to recover expenses of litigation, including attorney’s fees, incurred and paid by the plaintiff in prosecuting his claim for compensation before the Department of Industrial Relations; and also to recover, “because of the defendant’s bad faith and stubbornly litigious attitude in inciting this litigation,” the following additional sums: $250 “for his attorney’s fees in prosecuting this action;” $10 as nominal damages, and $500 as punitive damages. It appears from the petition that in the previous suit the plaintiff (then the claimant) obtained an award in his…