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· 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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