Tipton v. Texaco, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• allowing continued impleader of concurrent tortfeasors, whose liability for contribution was abolished after the adoption of comparative negligence
• finding no error in refusing a duplicative and possibly confusing instruction
• employer’s duty to provide a safe work place for employees of independent contractors is not absolute
• the extent of a party’s duty to another varies with the nature of the circumstances and according to the degree of control exercised
• allocation of comparative negligence among concurrent tortfeasors assures the complete disposition of the underlying suit
• “[T]he rules of third-party practice and joinder of missing parties ... [will] be liberally applied when comparative fault or liability of multiple parties surfaces in the pleadings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).