Raiola v. Los Angeles First National Trust & Savings Bank

How courts have described this case

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• party which settles claims and then seeks indemnification must be able to prove its liability and the reasonableness of its settlement payments
• a settling party “assumes the risk” of possible unfavorable implications in a subsequent “action against the wrongdoer for indemnity”
• to recover indemnity where there has been voluntary payment, party paying must himself be legally liable and show that he could have been compelled to satisfy claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).