CITY OF SANTA PAULA v. NARULA

No. B160389.

8 Cal.Rptr.3d 75 (2003)

114 Cal.App.4th 485

CITY OF SANTA PAULA, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Mohan NARULA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Blinn Maxwell, Schroeder Comis Nelson & Kahn and Anson M. Whitfield, Oxnard, for Defendants and Appellants.

Philip H. Romney and Karl H. Berger, City Attorneys; Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Schneider, and Peter D. Lemmon, Ventura, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


GILBERT, P.J.

Attorney fees are permitted when authorized by contract, statute or law. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1033.5, subd. (a)(10).) A city ordinance allows the city to collect attorney fees incurred in foreclosing a lien on real property. Just as "... a rose is a rose ..." so is an ordinance a statute when it permits recovery of attorney fees.1

Mohan and Sylvia Conway Narula (the...

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