Fields v. Mays, 08-Ca-6 (5-1-2009)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Appellant, Gabriel Mays, contends that the trial court should have credited a $23,640 judgment against him with a $50,000 payment that Appellees, Ted and Linda Fields, received before trial from Mays's insurer pursuant to a settlement agreement. The Fieldses, however, believe that in addition to the $26,360 beyond the value that the jury placed on their injuries that they already received, they are also entitled to the full amount of the judgment.

{¶ 2} On a sunny winter day in December 2004, while delivering mail along his usual rural route, and having just stopped his mail-truck…