Contracts — Releases — Construction — Release of liability for accident — Bar to subsequent joinder as additional defendant.
Where A operated an automobile which collided with another automobile operated by B in which C was a passenger, and thereafter A executed a valid release releasing B "from all, and all manner of, actions and causes of action, suits, . . . claims and demands whatsoever in law and equity, especially the liability arising out of the accident . . ."; and thereafter C instituted a suit in trespass against A and A sought to join B as an additional defendant, it was Held that the release barred such joinder and that the court below had properly entered judgment in favor of B.
OPINION PER CURIAM, January 4, 1954:
The judgment of the court below is affirmed on the opinion of Judge EDWIN O. LEWIS.