Reed v. Stone

GIGNOUX, District Judge.

These are diversity actions to recover damages for personal injuries arising out of separate automobile collisions. In each action the plaintiff was a passenger in a car owned and operated by her husband; the defendant was the driver of the other car involved in the collision; and the defendant has joined the plaintiff’s husband as third-party defendant. Each third-party complaint sufficiently alleges that the husband was negligent, and seeks contribution from him, as a joint tortfeasor, of one-half of the amount of any damages for which the defendant may be found…