Robert & Co. Associates v. Pinkerton & Laws Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a judgment fixing liability is not an absolute condition precedent to the enforcement of a contract of indemnity
• “if the word negligence had been used then it might be open to question that it was limited to liability only for negligence”
• indemnitee must prove “that the amounts paid in settlement of the actions were reasonable and not in excess of what 54 the claimants could have reasonably expected to obtain, under the facts and applicable law, had the cases been allowed to proceed to verdict and judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).