James Harkeem v. Benjamin C. Adams

In Griffin v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security, 117 N.H. 108, 370 A.2d 278 (1977), we declined to answer the question whether the superior court, in the exercise of its general equitable powers, can order a party who has instituted or prolonged litigation through bad faith or obstinate, unjust, vexatious, wanton, or oppressive conduct, to pay his opponents counsel fees. That question is now presented to us, and we answer it in the affirmative.