HARKEEM v. ADAMS

No. 7677.

117 N.H. 687 (1977)

JAMES HARKEEM v. BENJAMIN C. ADAMS, COMMISSIONER, NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ABINGTON SHOE COMPANY MILLER SHOE—DOVER c/o MELVILLE SHOE CORP.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

August 29, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Kohls and James C. Wheat (Mr. Wheat orally), for the plaintiff.

Edward F. Smith, Michael M. Black, Andre J. Barbeau, Paul V. Kenneally, Robert L. Hermann, Jr., Lonnie E. Siel (Mr. Black orally), for the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security.


DOUGLAS, 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...

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