Houdaille Industries, Inc. v. Edwards

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• the allowance of indemnity is premised upon a special relationship between the primary defendant and the third-party defendant
• “[Manufacturer’s] claim that [employee’s] death resulted solely from the negligence of [employer] states a complete defense to the manufacturer.” (emphasis added)
• where two tortfeasors are “chargeable with active or affirmative negligence contributing to the injury for which recovery was had, neither is entitled to indemnity from the other.”
• lack of active negligence or fault necessary in an indemnity suit
• indemnification appropriate where “vicarious, constructive, derivative or technical liability” at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).