Court Opinion

ID: 9532397
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:20:59.698475+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:45.371000
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McGUIRE, Judge,
(specially concurring).
I am unable to concur in all the legal reasoning in the majority opinion but do concur in the result. From the pretrial order and the transcript of testimony it clearly appears that the validity of the release as to the defendant insurance company was put in issue and tried. Specific findings of fact were not requested nor were they made and there is a presump*242tion that the trial judge found every fact necessary to support the judgment insofar as this can reasonably be inferred from the evidence. As mentioned in the majority opinion it appeared that plaintiff had refused to sign a release when requested by Dixon and signed the document without knowing what it was, and that the document was presented to him by his son who had not even filled in Dixon’s name when his father signed it. To this is added the fact that it was greatly to the advantage of both Dixon and the son to get the father’s signature and greatly to his disadvantage to give it. Without unusual circumstances of this or similar nature I would not sustain the judgment.
NOTE: Judge HERBERT F. KRUCKER having requested that he be relieved from consideration of this matter, Judge JOHN A. McGUIRE was called to sit in his stead and participate in the determination of this decision.