Butler v. United Pacific Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding on policy grounds that surety was not liable for punitive damages assessed against obligor
• noting that statute imposing certain costs was intended as “a penalty to discourage frivolous appeals”
• sureties are not bable for punitive damages absent legislative intent to the contrary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).