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P1383 In an action for breach of a contract calling for attorney fees to the prevailing party, a finding that individual defendants sued as alter egos of the defendant corporation were not liable as such, resulting in their dismissal from the action, makes them prevailing parties entitled to a fee award; bifurcation for judicial economy did not turn the alter ego phase of the trial into a noncontract claim, since the action against them depended on determination of that issue.CitationPUEBLO v GERLACH (Alter Ego Fees) 163 CA4 826 [See: CivC 1717; Reynolds v Alperson 25 C3 124; Profit Concepts v Griffith 162 CA4 950, P/AT 7/08; First Security Bank v Paquet 98 CA4 468, P/AT 7/02]
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