Brunswick Floors, Inc. v. Shuman

I must respectfully dissent from Division 1 of the majority’s opinion wherein it holds that, in order for a recovery of attorney’s fees to be authorized, there must be “evidence of ‘the actual costs of the attorney’ as well as evidence of the reasonableness of those costs. Brannon Enterprises [, Inc.] v. Deaton, 159 Ga. App. 685, 686 (285 SE2d 158) (1981); Sun v. Langston, 170 Ga. App. 60, 62 (3) (316 SE2d 172) (1984).” (p. 363) There is no doubt that evidence of the amount of “the actual costs of the attorney,” coupled with evidence that such amount was reasonable, will authorize a recovery…