Johnson v. City of Asheville

Under wbat circumstances may one joint tort-feasor recover indemnity from another joint tort-feasor?

The identical question is discussed in the case of Taylor v. Construction Co., 195 N. C., 30, 141 S. E., 492. The principle of liability was thus declared : “Where one of them is only passively negligent, but is exposed to liability through the positive acts and actual negligence of the other, the parties are not in equal fault as to each other, though both are equally liable to the injured person. . . . The further general principle is announced, however, in many cases, that where one does the…