First Virginia Bank-Colonial v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that sovereign immunity did not protect a clerk of court from liability for the act of a deputy clerk who improperly indexed a deed of trust
• overruling Lawhorne in part and holding that a court clerk may be vicariously liable for the actions of deputized court clerks
• “[A] contract of indemnity is a bilateral agreement between an indemnitor and an indemnitee in which the indemnitor promises to reimburse his indemnitee for loss suffered or to save him harmless from liability.”
• [A] contract of indemnity is a bilateral agreement between an indemnitor and an indemnitee in which the indemnitor promises to reimburse his indemnitee for loss suffered or to save him harmless from liability.”
• municipal officer liable for misfeasance of a ministerial duty
• “This is a distinction with a difference.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).