Bell v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• joint tortfeasors not indispensable parties, though they might be “liable to [defendant] for all or part of any judgment against him”
• in reversing grant of new trial, court distinguished between prejudicial legal error and loss of a tactical benefit in the proceedings, the former but not the latter being a basis for a new trial

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