Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough v. Dawson

HOWE, Justice:

Defendant Jerilyn Shelton Dawson appeals from a judgment for attorney fees entered against her based on findings that plaintiff law firm Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and Mc-Donough did not establish a “cap” on its attorney fees for representing Dawson in her divorce action. She assails the trial court’s decision that collateral estoppel and res judi-cata barred her from relitigating in this action the amount of attorney fees which the divorce court found reasonable in the underlying divorce action. The judgment awarded plaintiff fees for the trial and appeal representation of Dawson…