Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Jefferson County Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the contractor was not entitled to any relief under the performance bond after it went outside the terms of the performance bond and hired its own contractor to complete the subcontract
• granting summary judgment on defendant’s counterclaim for violation of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing
• “A generally accepted rule of contract law is that where a writing expressly refers to and sufficiently describes another document, that other document should be interpreted as part of the writing.”
• “To enforce the Bond, however, the JCC had to work under the terms of the Bond and allow F & D to takeover responsibility of the elevator construction under Paragraph 4.2. This it did not do, and it cannot now ask for relief under the Bond.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).