# Maxon Corp. v. Tyler Pipe Industries, Inc.

> Indiana Court of Appeals · September 15, 1986 · 497 N.E.2d 570

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9732834

## Case

- **Full name:** MAXON CORPORATION and Commercial Union Assurance Companies, Appellants (Plaintiffs Below), v. TYLER PIPE INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellee (Defendant Below), and Tyler Corporation and Tyler Pipe Industries of Texas, Inc., Nominal Appellees (Defendants Below)
- **Court:** Indiana Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** September 15, 1986
- **Citations:** 497 N.E.2d 570; 3 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 52; 1986 Ind. App. LEXIS 2951
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Shields
- **Judges:** Sullivan, Miller, Shields
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9732834

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding material alteration as a matter of law, and citing other cases finding alteration a legal question
- noting that, in some states, certain clauses have been held to constitute a material alteration of the contract as a matter of law

## Opinion text

SHIELDS, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in the majority opinion to the extent it finds the indemnification clause is unconscionable and violates public policy.

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