Legal Opinion
Harkeem v. Adams
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided August 29, 1977No. 7677PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
In Griffin v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security, 117 N.H. 108, 370 A.2d 278 (1977), we declined to answer the question whether the superior court, in the exercise of its general equitable powers, can order a party who has instituted or prolonged litigation through bad faith or obstinate, unjust, vexatious, wanton, or oppressive conduct, to pay his opponent’s counsel fees. That question is now presented to us, and we answer it in the affirmative.
The plaintiff, James Harkeem, does not appear before this court for the first time. Part of the facts of this case have been previously…
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