Union Indemnity Co. v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie v. Diefendorf · Stewart-McGehee Construction Co. v. Brewster & Riley Feed Manufacturing Co. · Mansfield Lumber Co. v. National Surety Co. · Union Indemnity Co. v. Forgey & Hanson · Wallace Equipment Co. v. Graves
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But we cannot construe the bond here sued on to be a statutory bond, when its obligations expressly negative that construction. This is not a case where the bond contains conflicting obligations; on the contrary, there is nothing in the bond to indicate that its protection inures to any one except the obligee, the Masonic lodge, and the recital is express that the surety shall be liable only to the obligee. We may construe contracts, but we have no right to make them, and we must therefore hold that the bond protects only the Masonic lodge, and the court was therefore in error in rendering judgment in favor of any of the interveners on the bond, and that judgment will be reversed and the interventions dismissed as to the surety company. Wallace Equipment Co. v. Graves, 132 Wn. 141 , 231 P. 458 ; Massachusetts Bonding Ins. Co. v. Hoffman, 34 Ga. App. 565 , 130 S.E. 375 . See also City of Erie, to use of Schafer v. Diefendorf 278 Pa. 31 , 122 A. 159 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Hadfield
How this case has been treated — in progress
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