Waln v. Cuthbert’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The damages, claims or demands specified in the covenant are those that might result from the legal existence, as between the contracting parties, of the stipulation in regard to the accounts, and not such as .might proceed from the endeavor, on the one side or the other, to put such stipulation out of existence. Indeed, the purpose of the covenant in suit seems clear. It was to provide against the obvious danger to these executors from the making of this irregular settlement, in view of the circumstance that other creditors might cite them before the court to settle their accounts, whereby the arrangement with the defendant might bo overhauled and they might be subjected to costs and other losses. But these-parties did not contemplate, and therefore did not provide-against tho consequences of a controversy arising between themselves touching the legality of their agreement. There-is no indemnification with respect to such consequences.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland v. Crouse