Odd Bergs Tankrederi A/s as Owner of the M/s Kollgeir v. S/t Gulfspray, Her Engines, Tackle, Appurtenances and Gulf Oil Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• right of indemnity arises from duty indemnitor owes indemnitee who is liable to injured party
• recovery of attorneys’ fees not allowed where party “would incur the same legal expenses whether or not other parties were partly at fault for the loss”
• recovery of attorneys’ fees not allowed where party “would incur the same legal expenses whether or not other parties were partly at fault for the loss”
• recovery of attorneys’ fees not allowed where party “would incur the same legal expenses whether or not other parties were partly at fault for the loss”
• “Contribution, on the other hand, is based on the equitable theory that even though a wrongdoer may be liable for damages to the injured party, it should not have to bear the entire amount of damages when others are partly at fault.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).