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CHAWLA v. BURGERBUSTERS, INC.

Record No. 970941.

499 S.E.2d 829 (1998)

255 Va. 616

Inder CHAWLA, et al. v. BURGERBUSTERS, INC.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 17, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Terrence Ney (Robert T. Cahill, McLean; Daniel M. O'Connell, Jr., Warrenton; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, McLean; O'Connell & Mayhugh, Warrenton, on briefs), for appellants.

Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr., Richmond (J. Gray Lawrence, Jr., Chesapeake; Durrette, Irvin & Bradshaw, Richmond; Faggert & Frieden, Chesapeake, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, LACY, KEENAN, KOONTZ and KINSER, JJ., and STEPHENSON, Senior Justice.

STEPHENSON, Senior Justice.

In this appeal, we consider, inter alia, whether the trial court erred in (1) interpreting and applying a provision in a lease providing for the payment of attorneys' fees and (2) placing upon the defendants the burden of proving that the attorneys' fees claimed by the plaintiff were unreasonable.

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The attorneys' fees in question were incurred by BurgerBusters, Inc. (BurgerBusters), a tenant in a shopping center...

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