John S. Smith v. New York Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, where the parties relied in the district court on the application of Georgia law even though Utah law should have governed the case, the parties were bound on appeal by Georgia law, “absent some manifest injustice”
• parties bound by legal theories on which they rely in district court, including choice of law in diversity case, absent manifest injustice
• parties bound by legal theories on which they rely in district court, including choice of law in diversity case, absent manifest injustice
• parties bound by legal theories on which they rely in district court, including choice of law in diversity case, absent manifest injustice

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