Wade v. Baybarz

OPINION

GODDARD, Judge.

The principal issue raised in these related cases is whether a compromise settlement of a minor’s personal injury claim which is approved by a court and satisfied by one joint tort-feasor bars a subsequent suit by the minor against another joint tort-feasor.

The compromise settlement was made with the host driver, Sherry S. Lay, and thereafter suit was filed against the driver of the other vehicle involved, Jeffrey D. Baybarz.1 When Mr. Baybarz pleaded the settlement as a bar, a Rulé 60 motion was then filed in the Lay case, seeking to amend the order to specifically…