Price v. Ryan

The plaintiff was injured through the negligence of a truck driver who was in the general employment of the defendant Ryan. Even though it be conceded that the defendant Dickison, with whom Ryan had contracted for the use of the truck and driver, was negligent in directing the driver, known to him to be intoxicated, to proceed along the street where the accident occurred, the defendant Ryan has no standing to complain that the jury found a verdict against himself alone. The Civil Practice Act (§ 211-a) in furnishing to one joint tort feasor a remedy for the recovery of contribution from the…