George A. Hormel & Co. v. General Motors Truck Co.

1. It is the general rule that where one of two or more joint tort-feasors has been compelled to satisfy damages arising from a joint tortious transaction, he can not maintain an action for indemnification against those joining with him in the tort; but if the liability of the tort-feasor who has been compelled to pay the damages arises merely from negative acts or omission on his part, such as failing in his duty to inspect, and the proximate cause of the injury, with respect to the joint tort-feasors, consists in active, positive acts of negligence on the part of the other tort-feasor, in…