St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. VDE Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• relying on Green River in ascertaining and applying Puerto Rico law
• ‘We cannot rewrite Paragraph 4,2 to require owner consent in cases where the owner voices a ‘well-founded objection’ to the selected contractor.”
• “In the event that [the surety] fails to meet its obligations to complete the contract, [the obligee] has a remedy against [the surety].”
• “Although ‘[t]he prevailing doctrine is that [a surety bond] should be liberally interpreted in favor of its beneficiary,’ that principle ‘is not a blank check to the judicial power to rule out the pacts and agreements between the parties.’” (alterations in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).