· 12/29/1980
Doris Filner v. Samuel Shapiro and Southwestern Alloys Corporation
Citations
- 633 F.2d 139
- 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 11035
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- \[t]he existence of the principal's duty to pay gives a surety the equitable right to call upon the principal to exonerate him from liability by discharging the debt when it becomes due\
- “Under the guise of interpreting a contract, a court should not rewrite it.”
- “[t]he existence of the principal’s duty to pay gives a surety the equitable right to call upon the principal to exonerate him from liability by discharging the debt when it becomes due”
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Judges: Van Graafeiland, Timbers, Van Graafei-Land Newman
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