Olch v. Pacific Press & Shear Co.

Pacific Press & Shear Company (Pacific Press) and Buckner-Weatherby Company (BucknerWeatherby), third parties in an employee's suit for damages resulting from an industrial accident, appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their common-law claim for indemnity against Collator Corporation (Collator), the allegedly negligent employer of the injured workman, Bruce E. Olch.

*91This appeal presents the question of a third party's right to indemnity from an employer in an employee's action against the employer whose negligence allegedly was the primary cause of the injury.

The facts for the purposes…