Peters v. Mindell

How courts have described this case

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• “Accompanying every contract is an implied duty to perform with care, skill, reasonable expedience and faithfulness.”
• discussing various circumstances in which obligation of indemnity is imposed based on legal relationship between parties
• engineering company that contracted with sellers 'of a home to design and build septic system would be required to indemnify sellers for any liability to buyers for defect in the septic system, so long as sellers did not acquiesce in the defect
• if supported by affidavits or other evidence, all allegations made in opposition to summary judgment are regarded as true
• every contract includes implied duty to perform with care, skill, reasonable expedience, and faithfulness
• where purchasers of house sue builders for damages caused by defective septic tank, builders may obtain indemnity from engineers who designed and certified construction of tank

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).