Woyma v. Ciolek

Plaintiff-appellee, Ann Marie Woyma, filed suit against appellant’s decedent, Herman Shackelford, alleging damages resulting from Shackelford’s negligent operation of his motor vehicle. Woyma requested the trial court to set aside a release signed by the parties, on the grounds of mutual mistake. The court set aside the release and the jury awarded $22,500 to Woyma. We affirm for the reasons set forth in this opinion.

Woyma was a schoolteacher and in March 1977 was driving some of her pupils to the Justice Center for a field trip. She was stopped at a red light on East 30th Street when Herman…