Hayon v. Coca Cola Bottling Co. of New England

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the purpose is to remedy “the unfairness of allowing a disproportionate share of the plaintiffs recovery to be borne by one of several joint tortfea-sors” and to accomplish “a more equitable distribution of that burden among those liable in tort for the same injury.”
• “The term ‘liable in tort’ ... is broad in scope and not suitable language for implying a narrow or restricted range of application within the framework of potential tort defendants.”
• \The term `liable in tort' ... is broad in scope and not suitable language for implying a narrow or restricted range of application within the framework of potential tort defendants.\
• “The term ‘liable in tort,’ as used in § 1 (a) to create and define the statutory right of contribution, is broad in scope . . .”
• construction of statute \should advance rather than defeat the purpose of the statute\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).