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NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. BYNUM

No. 533.

148 S.E.2d 114 (1966)

267 N.C. 289

NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. John Robert BYNUM.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 11, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dupree, Weaver, Horton, Cockman & Alvis, by F. T. Dupree, Jr., Jerry S. Alvis, Raleigh, for plaintiff appellant.

Teague, Johnson & Patterson, by Robert M. Clay, Raleigh, for defendant appellee.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff-appellant in its brief correctly states the question of law involved in this appeal:

"Can an automobile insurer of one joint tort-feasor after discharging in full a judgment obtained by an injured party against its insured maintain in its own name an action for contribution under G.S. 1-240 against a second joint tort-feasor whose negligence proximately caused and contributed to the injury for which the judgment was obtained...

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