A Brunswick contractor who told a Glynn County jury he was owed more than $100,000 after being booted off of a job building a mansion on St. Simons Island was instead ordered to pay nearly a half-million dollars to the homeowner, nearly all of which reflected attorney fees accrued fighting the suit and pursuing counterclaims.
Robert Khayat Jr. of Atlanta’s Khayat Law Firm, who represented the defendant homeowner, said the fee award didn’t come close to covering the roughly $800,000 in bills he and co-counsel Garret Meader of Drew Eckl & Farnham’s Brunswick office had run up litigating the case. The award was issued under Georgia’s statute allowing fee recovery in cases where the opposing party has acted in bad faith, been stubbornly litigious or caused the plaintiff “unnecessary trouble and expense.”
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