Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Fligelman

Stone, Justice.. As insurer of the Hall Hardware Company, plaintiff paid substantial sums in compromise and settlement of a tort liability of its insured. As subrogee to the rights of the latter, plaintiff sues for contribution from defendants as joint tort-feasors.

After dark on the evening of March 30, 1935, three gentlemen by the names of .Solberg, Hanson, and Lucken were traveling eastward on highway No. 10 a few miles east of Perham. We shall refer to theirs as the Solberg car. It came into almost head-on collision with the Hall Hardware Company’s vehicle, which we shall call the Hall…