Sims v. Bryan

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The first question raised is whether the Turman document is a release or a covenant not to sue. We are well satisfied that it is a release: It is so styled and it purports to free this defendant from liability for all "actions and causes of action” arising from the collision between the vehicles. The basic distinction, as pointed out in Henderson v. Garbutt, 121 Ga. App. 291, 292 (173 SE2d 445) quoting from Harmon v. Givens, 88 Ga. App. 629, 634 (77 SE2d 223), is "whether they show an intention on the part of the injured person to acknowledge a full satisfaction of…