Is a tenant entitled to lawyer fees and client costs if the assignee of a tenant defends the tenant in an action brought by the landlord?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Royal Bank of Canada v. Green, 1914 CanLII 96 (SK QB):
In Howard v. Lovegrove (1871) L.R. 6 Ex. 43, 40 L.J. Ex. 13, the assignee of a tenant who had defended an action brought by the landlord was held entitled to his solicitor and client costs upon an undertaking by his assignor to indemnify him against performance of covenants in the lease, the interests of the assignor and the assignee in such case being identical.
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