The Western Cape High Court held that the principal debtor (in this case the contractor under a building contract) can apply to court to rectify a guarantee between the guarantor (an insurer) and the beneficiary under the guarantee (the employer) where the contractor had given a counter indemnity to the insurer.
A guarantee contract is
Where the evidence demonstrates that a written contract does not express the true intention of the parties, the courts will read the contract as the parties intended it.
A US supreme appeal court found that Harleysville Insurance Company did not have to cover a police officer under a section of their policy covering law enforcement