Court Opinion

ID: 9583344
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:37:53.823643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:38:58.367422
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Felton, Chief Judge,
dissenting. The plaintiff, Mrs. A. D. Miller, signed a release the consideration for which -was paid by the Royal Globe Insurance Group in settlement of her claim against the defendant, Sidney M. Folsom, who was insured by Royal Globe. In the last paragraph of this release, on page 98 of the record, it is provided: “. . . that there is absolutely no agreement on the part of said Sidney M. Folsom, P. E. Kennedy, Kennedy Naval Stores, Kennedy Engineering Company and Kennedy Construction Company to make any payment or to do any act or thing other than is herein expressly stated and clearly agreed to.” My construction of this agreement is that there was nothing settled by Mrs. Miller’s release except her claim against the defendant Folsom and that, since the defendant’s claim against Mrs. Miller was not expressly mentioned in the release, the defendant was entitled to proceed against the plaintiff for damages.

Gardner, P. J., and Townsend, J., concur in the foregoing dissent.