Price v. Connors

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This case is brought here by writ of error to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, Second Division. The action was for damages for personal injuries sustained as the result of a gunshot wound, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

The defendants to the action, after putting in issue the allegations of the complaint, set up as an affirmative defense in their answer that the plaintiff, for and in consideration of the sum of $500 paid to him by them, had released and discharged them from all liability for the alleged cause of action.…