Gray v. Chacon

ENTRY

BARKER, District Judge.

Only recently this court was asked to consider Indiana’s common law rules regarding the release of joint tortfeasors. At that time the court found that “Indiana courts continue to cling to the rule that the release of one joint tortfeasor necessarily functions as a release of all joint tort-feasors regardless of the parties’ manifest intention to preserve the victim’s claim against other joint tortfeasors.” Fetz v. E & L Truck Rental Co., 670 F.Supp. 261, 263 (S.D.Ind.1987) (emphasis omitted). With this case the court is asked to consider what impact the adoption…