Piedmont Equipment Co. v. Eberhard Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that right of indemnitee to recover legal fees should not depend on pleadings, but rather on evidence presented as well as facts found at trial
• holding that an indemnitee who was “exonerated of liability at trial” was, nonetheless, only entitled to recover expenses not directed at rebutting charges of active negligence.
• “An indemnitee is not ‘held harmless’ pursuant to an express or implied indemnity agreement if it must incur costs and attorney’s fees to vindicate its rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).