Gulf Insurance Co. v. Burns Motors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that indemnity agreements in Texas are construed under the normal rules of contract construction with the primary goal of giving effect to the parties’ intent as expressed in the contract
• holding that indemnification clause providing indemnity “except to the extent the 75 Agent has caused, contributed to or compounded such error” did not contemplate agent’s indemnification from the consequences of his own negligence
• “As assignee, Burns Motors stands in Nash’s shoes and may assert only those rights that Nash himself could assert.”
• “An agreed judgment has the same effect as any court judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).