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Mountbatten Surety Co. v. Szabo Contracting, Inc.

Citations

  • 812 N.E.2d 90
  • 285 Ill. Dec. 501
  • 349 Ill. App. 3d 857

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that this court reviews a trial court’s decision whether to allow a party to raise an affirmative defense under an abuse of discretion standard
  • noting that this court reviews a trial court's decision whether to allow a party to raise an affirmative defense under an abuse of discretion standard
  • noting that “an indemnity agreement is a contract and is subject to the rules for interpreting contracts”
  • analyzing surety's indemnity and collateralization rights based on terms of contract, without resort to general equitable principles

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Judges: O'Malley, Grometer, Callum

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