FIRST GEN. SERV. OF CHARLESTON v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the dismissal of an action for contribution where the plaintiff had not made any payment since the \right to contribution does not arise prior to payment\
• finding relationship between contractor and subcontractor sufficient basis for claim of equitable indemnity
• defendant’s mere allegations in counterclaim as to negligence of plaintiff may not defeat plaintiffs right to claim derivative liability
• “The outcome of the principal claim must impact the third-party defendant’s liability; however, no right exists to implead a third-party defendant who is directly liable to the plaintiff.”
• “We hold that the relationship of contractor/subcontractor is a sufficient basis to support a claim of equitable indemnity.” (citations omitted)
• “Indemnity is that form of compensation in which a first party is liable to pay second party for a loss or damage the second party incurs to a third party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).