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How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, where strictly liable and negligent defendants have acted as joint tort-feasors, contribution among them can be properly awarded
• in a contribution action, rights and obligations flow not from the tort but from the settlement or judgment itself
• in a contribution action, rights and obligations flow not from the tort but from the settlement or judgment itself
• one defendant liable for negligence, another defendant liable under strict liability
• “So long as the party seeking contribution has paid in excess of his or her share of liability, it would be inequitable under [UCATA] to deny that party’s right to contribution from a second tortfeasor who also contributed to the plaintiff’s injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).