Smithwick v. Crutchfield

BECTON, Judge.

This action arises out of a 12 December 1978 automobile accident in which a Datsun automobile belonging to Plaintiffs, Carla Ann Hall Smithwick and Patricia S. Hall, and driven by Ms. Smithwick, collided with a Dodge automobile driven by Defendant Wayne Crutchfield and owned by his mother, Defendant Veora Crutchfield. Plaintiffs appeal from a 3 November 1986 judgment of the trial court which dismissed their claims on the ground that, by pleading a release signed by Defendants in bar of Defendants’ counterclaim, Plaintiffs had ratified the compromise settle*375ment made by their…