Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. General Motors Corp.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. and Insurance Co. of North America from an adverse final summary judgment entered in a contribution action. The plaintiffs had previously settled with an injured party who had sued them in a negligence action arising out of an automobile accident; the plaintiffs then brought this contribution claim against the defendant General Motors Corporation on the theory that the injured party’s damages in the automobile accident sued upon were, in part, proximately caused by the defective automobile which the injured party was driving at the…