NATIONAL FARMERS UNION PROPERTY & CAS. CO. v. NELSON

No. 52118.

147 N.W.2d 839 (1967)

NATIONAL FARMERS UNION PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee, v. Mavis I. NELSON and Lyle V. Nelson and Iowa Home Mutual Casualty Company, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross H. Sidney, Des Moines, and W. M. Cornwall, Spencer, for appellants.

Fitzgibbons & Fitzgibbons, Estherville, for appellee.


LARSON, Justice.

By action in equity plaintiff seeks contribution from defendants for one half of plaintiff's expenditures incident to settlement of a lawsuit. Plaintiff claims that in the accident giving rise to the expenditures defendants Nelson were joint tort-feasors and resultantly liable for contribution. One aspect of the case was before us in Pedersen v. Bring, 254 Iowa 288, 117 N.W.2d 509. We there held that the instrument...

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