Legal Opinion
Southern Pacific Co. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided April 22, 1959PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
This is an action to recover judgment under a contract for indemnity wherein the plaintiff, Southern Pacific Company, is the indemnitee, and the de fendants, Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Peter Kiewit Sons’ Company and Maceo Corporation, joint venturers, together were doing business as MorrisonKiewit-Macco, are the indemnitors.
We will hereinafter refer to plaintiff as the Bail-road and to defendants as the Industry. In so doing we adopt the terms by which they are respectively described in the agreement under review. From a judgment in favor of the Bailroad after trial by the court without…
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