Terry Neustrom v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant-Third-Party v. Asplundh Tree Expert Company, Third-Party

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• stating that “a duty to act reasonably and in good faith must be read into every contract, including the terms of indemnification clauses”
• “Because the parties proceed on the assumption that Kansas substantive contract law applies, we apply that law without further analysis.”
• “Under Kansas law, the prevailing party in a lawsuit may recover attorneys’ fees where such is specifically authorized by statute or contract.” (quoting Mo. Pac. R.R. v. Kan. Gas & Elec. Co., 862 F.2d 796, 801 (10th Cir. 1988))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).