Farm Bureau Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Houle

How courts have described this case

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

• establishing availability of declaratory judgment to determine an insurer’s obligations under a contract of insurance
• “[Defendant] was not one of the parties to the contract of insurance so cannot invoke an estoppel against the insurer.”
• “A waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right... [and] involves both knowledge and intent.”
• “He who claims an equitable estoppel must show that he has been misled and thereby prejudiced by the conduct of the other party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).