Matthew Laird Shaffer v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• “This right to indemnity is limited to those cases in which the would-be indemnitee is held derivatively or vicariously liable for the wrongful act of another”
• indemnity, at common law, is permitted only when the individual or entity seeking indemnity is not at fault for the negligent act, but is exposed to derivative or vicarious liability for the wrongful act of another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).