Ford v. Coleman

COWART, Judge.

This case involves the judicial construction of a written release in favor of an automobile owner and the owner's “agents” and the question of whether the release exonerated the driver of the automobile as being the owner’s agent.

*835Appellant Ford was injured while a passenger in an automobile owned by Russo Communications, Inc. and operated by ap-pellee David Coleman. Appellant settled with the vehicle owner and its insurer and executed a release discharging from further liability Russo Communications, Inc., “its agents, servants, successors, heirs, executors and administrators.”…