Economy Engineering Co. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• allowing party who is liable on theory of breach of warranty to obtain contribution from another whose negligence contributed to same injury
• stating in dicta that it was not a case where the fault of one joint tortfeasor is so slight as to grant it rights of indemnity against another joint tortfeasor
• “[in] rare cases ... the fault of one joint tortfeasor . . . [may be] so slight as to grant it rights of indemnity against another joint tortfeasor”
• “This is not one of those rare cases where the fault of one joint tortfeasor (the Commonwealth) is so slight as to grant it rights of indemnity against another joint tortfeasor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).