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JONES, WALDO, HOLBROOK, ETC. v. DAWSON

No. 940595.

923 P.2d 1366 (1996)

JONES, WALDO, HOLBROOK & McDONOUGH, a Utah professional corporation, Plaintiff, Appellee, and Cross-Appellant, v. Jerilyn Shelton DAWSON, Defendant, Appellant, and Cross-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Utah.

September 6, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Williams Ronnow, John J. Walton, St. George, for plaintiff.

Joseph Harlan Burns, Cedar City, for defendant.

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 McDonough 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 judicata barred her from relitigating in this action the amount of attorney fees which the divorce court found reasonable...

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