Hiltz v. John Deere Industrial Equipment Co.

How courts have described this case

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• declining to reexamine “the common law rule barring contribution among joint tortfeasors” because it was unnecessary to address the issue on the facts presented
• declining to reexamine “the common law rule barring contribution among joint tortfeasors” because it was unnecessary to address the issue on the facts presented
• where there is no joint liability, there is no basis to apply rules of contribution among joint tortfeasors
• “Under Vermont law, a right of indemnity exists if... there is an express agreement or undertaking by one to indemnify the other[.]”
• court declined to abrogate rule barring contribution among joint tortfeasors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).