Burlingame Motor Co. v. Peninsula Activities, Inc.

Opinion

DEVINE, P. J.

Indemnity among tortfeasors is the subject of this appeal.

On May 5, 1961, Edward Bister, an employee of Dick Bullís, Inc., an automobile dealer, was injured by an explosion in the company’s paint shop. He was pumping gasoline from a drum. A moment before the explosion he heard a sound like that of two wires shortcircuiting each other. There were, in fact, as testified by the fire inspector, who investigated the accident, two bare hot wires close by. Bister sued Mausser Electric Company, Inc., Burlingame Motor Company, Inc. (hereinafter sometimes referred to as Burlingame…