MAYER v. KNOPF

Contracts — Releases — Construction — Release of liability for accident — Bar to liability as additional defendant.

Where A operated an automobile which collided with another automobile operated by B in which C was a passenger and B and C sued A in an action of trespass in which A joined B as an additional defendant and thereafter A executed a valid release releasing B and C "from any and all actions, causes of action, claims or demands for damages . . . especially the liability arising out of the aforesaid accident", it was Held that the release barred B's liability as an additional defendant for contribution to A and that the court below had properly entered judgment in favor of B.

OPINION PER CURIAM, June 30, 1959:

The judgment of the court below is affirmed on the opinion of Judge WEINROTT of the Court of Common Pleas No. 5 of Philadelphia County, appearing in 17 Pa. D. C.2d 308.