Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Truck Insurance Exchange

This is a suit ① for contribution between a general liability carrier and a niotor-vehicle liability carrier. Truck Insurance Exchange appeals a decree ordering it to pay four fifths of a personal-injury loss settled and paid by Liberty Mutual.

The injury and loss occurred as follows: Robert Gordineer, a log-truck driver employed by Butler Transport, Inc., delivered a load of logs to a pond operated by U. S. Plywood. Allegedly through the negligence of employees of D. S. Plywood, a log fell off the truck while it was being unloaded, and injured Gordineer, who was walking from the cab of the…