City of Tacoma v. Bonnell

Citations

• 65 Wash. 505
• 118 P. 642
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 961

Syllabus

<p>Indemnity — Joint Tort Feasors — -Liability Over — Contribution — Pari Delicto. Where a judgment was recovered against a city engaged in selling electricity for profit, for wrongful death, by electric shock, upon allegations that the city was negligent in failing to install proper ground wires to protect its secondary circuit from a dangerous overcharge in case of contact with its primary circuit, and in failing to detect the overcharge after notice thereof and failing to turn off the current until remedied, the city cannot recover over from a third party whose concurrent negligence in allowing a plank to fall on the wires caused the contact and dangerous overcharge, since they were joint wrongdoers in pari delicto.</p>