Ford Motor Co. v. Kuhbacher

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, John H. Kuhbacher, a minor who was injured while a passenger in an automobile manufactured by the appel-lee-defendant, hereinafter referred to as defendant. The suit was originally commenced against the Ford Motor Company, the Stockmen’s Motor Company, which sold the automobile; and Loren Simpson, the driver of the car on the early morning of July 5, 1967, when the accident occurred. Prior to the trial the plaintiff entered into a covenant not to sue Simpson and Stockmen’s in consideration of $10,000 paid to plaintiff — by reason of…