O'Mara v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc.

The principal action was an action of tort by the plaintiff O’Mara for injury due to the negligent driving of the defendant Zwicker, an employee of the defendant H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. (Hood). At the time of the accident the plaintiff was a passenger in a car driven by Ann Bodmer, and Hood and Zwicker impleaded Bodmer as a third party defendant, claiming contribution under G. L. c. 23IB, § 1, inserted by St. 1962, c. 730, § 1. The case is before us on exceptions taken by Hood and Zwicker to the direction of verdicts against them on their contribution claims.

The jury could have found the…