Champlin Petroleum Co. v. Pruitt

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This is an appeal by defendants, Champ-lin Petroleum Company, Robert L. Buttrill, and Employers Casualty Company from a declaratory judgment declaring an instrument dated December 28, 1970, signed by Travis W. Pruitt and Johnson Linen Service and styled “Release in Full of All Claims” to be inoperative and of no force and effect as to the rights of the plaintiff, Travis W. Pruitt, and that it would in no way prevent a recovery by plaintiff from the defendants, Employers Casualty Company, Champlin Petroleum Company and Robert Buttrill.

The plaintiff, Pruitt, had started…