Grynbal v. Grynbal

Though somewhat obscured in procedural ramifications, the emerging substantive question on this appeal is whether one set of joint tort-feasors, respectively the owner and the driver of one of two automobiles involved in a collision, may offset in their answer medical payments reimbursed to the plaintiff, a passenger of the other vehicle, by the insurance carrier of the latter vehicle’s owner, in pursuance of a provision for such benefit in the latter’s liability policy.

*428The foregoing question arises from the following background in this case. On March 5, 1967, the plaintiff Bacía Grynbal was…