Electric Controls v. Ponderosa Fibres of America

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• recognizing that when parties have actually litigated the issues, Rule 15.02 provides an exception to the general rule “that irrespective of what may be proved a court cannot decree to any plaintiff more than he claims in his bill or other pleadings”
• “[T]he indemnitee’s right to recover attorney’s fees ... depends ... upon the fact that the indemnitee ... was forced to defend itself due to some fault or wrongdoing by the indemnitor”

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