Hangar Cab Company, Inc. v. City of Atlanta

Eberhardt, Judge.

Hangar Cab Company sued the City of Atlanta and E. Jack Smith, d/b/a E. Jack Smith Construction Company, for contribution under Code Ann. § 105-2012, alleging that it had paid to a fare-paying passenger in its cab the sum of $3,180 in settlement of a claim for personal injuries arising when the cab had run into a pile of unlighted dirt and a manhole cover which the city had raised in a street preparatory for its surfacing by Smith, the contractor, and that the settlement was made "to avoid a more costly settlement which would occur in the event [the passenger] resorted to…