Dixon v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• a defendant who settles a case under a complaint that charged fault cannot seek to shift that liability to a codefendant under the theory of indemnity
• “An issue is moot if no actual controversy exists or where events occur which make it impossible for the court to grant effectual relief.”
• a defendant who settles a case under a complaint that charged fault cannot seek to shift that liability to a co-defendant under the theory of indemnity
• where party seeking indemnity was not at fault, it may shift its entire liability to the truly responsible party, unless party seeking indemnity is found to have been at fault in causing the injury
• a reviewing court may take judicial notice of such events or facts that, while not appearing in the record, disclose an actual controversy no longer exists between the adverse parties
• product user entitled to indemnity for brake system failure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).