Chuby v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff appeals from an order of the court below which denied plaintiff’s motion for reformation of a release and granted defendant’s motion for accelerated judgment of dismissal.

Plaintiff, as administratrix of the estate of her son, brought an action in circuit court to recover damages arising out of the accident which caused his death. As a defense, defendants argued that all claims of plaintiff, both individually and as the representative of the estate of her deceased son, had been released by plaintiff in two releases signed January 21, 1972. The release which plaintiff executed in her…