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STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. CONTINENTAL CAS. CO.

264 Wis. 493 (1953)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Respondent, vs. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

July 3, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Dougherty, Arnold & Waters and Beyer & Sonnenberg, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Suel O. Arnold.

For the respondent there was a brief by Roberts, Roe, Boardman, Suhr & Bjork of Madison, and oral argument by Walter M. Bjork.

CURRIE, J.

This appeal presents the question of whether the release executed in this instance by the injured party to one of two joint tort-feasors and the latter's insurance carrier, precludes the insurance carrier of the second joint tort-feasor, who later had made a reasonable settlement with the injured person, from recovering contribution from the insurance carrier of the first joint tort-feasor.

Although the conception of the common law in most jurisdictions...

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