Can a defendant in a tort action recover attorney's fees from a third party defendant?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Watson v. Department of Transportation, 68 Cal.App.4th 885, 80 Cal.Rptr.2d 594 (Cal. App. 1998):

The claim was summarily rejected in Davis v. Air Technical Industries, Inc. (1978) 22 Cal.3d 1, 7, fn. 9, 148 Cal.Rptr. 419, 582 P.2d 1010: "[T]he Prentice language cited by respondent ... could be read to entitle exonerated defendants in commonplace, multiparty tort actions to recover their attorney's fees from unrelated codefendants who were held liable. Such [68 Cal.App.4th 894] a rule was not intended

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