Hackett v. Hyson

These actions of trespass on the case for negligence were heard together in the superior court on plaintiffs’ demurrers to defendant’s special pleas in bar. The superior court overruled the demurrers and sustained the pleas. Plaintiffs excepted to those rulings and have duly prosecuted their bills of exceptions to this court.

Those exceptions raise a question of construction of public laws 1940, chapter 940, otherwise called the “uniform contribution among tortfeasors act”. By section 1 of that act joint tortfeasors are defined to be “two or more persons jointly or severally liable in tort for…