Sample case 1

The concept of indemnity can be found in the fact of that case Adamson v Jarvis ,

The plaintiff who is an auctioneer sold certain cattle on the instruction of the defendant . It turned out later that the livestock did not beong to the defendant but it belonged to another person , who made the auctioneer liable and the auctioneer sued the defendant for indemnity for the loss he had thus suffered by acting on the defendant 's directions . The court held that the plaintiff having acted on the request of the defendant was entitled to assume that if what he did turned out to be wrongful , he would be indemnified by the defendant .