Thomas v. Newyork

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing a right to contribution in the Virgin Islands
• “Following our decision on the appeal, a petition for rehearing was filed urging us to consider the further question: to what extent, if at all, should the judgment against appellant be reduced to reflect any right of contribution he might have.”
• a system which taxes non settling tort feasors to the extent of their negligence, and no further is the more equitable
• “The first question is whether a right of contribution generally exists among joint tort-feasors. That no such right is recognized at common law has long been clear.” (citing Merryweather v. Nixan, (1799), 101 Eng. Rep. 1337 (K.B.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).