# Nicholson v. United Pacific Insurance

> Montana Supreme Court · December 17, 1985 · 219 Mont. 32

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9507989

## Case

- **Full name:** ALAN D. NICHOLSON, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. UNITED PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** Montana Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 17, 1985
- **Citations:** 219 Mont. 32; 710 P.2d 1342; 1985 Mont. LEXIS 961
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Sheehy
- **Judges:** Gulbrandson, Sheehy, Turnage, Harrison, Weber, Morrison, Hunt
- **Cited by:** 71 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Overruled in part, on other grounds by Story v. City of Bozeman, 242 Mont. 436 (1990).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9507989

## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY,
specially concurring:
I concur with the above opinion of Mr. Justice Gulbrandson, especially its result. I have some different conceptions of the source and legal effect of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in contracts, which I will express when necessary. The majority opinion here serves well the case before us, and gives direction to courts and lawyers in this developing field.

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9507989. Public record. Not legal advice.