Mesa v. Poole

Deen, Judge.

Mrs. Poole, the defendant-appellee, was involved in an automobile collision with the Mesas, who thereafter filed actions for damages. The defendant’s motion for summary judgment based on a release accepted in settlement from the defendant’s insurer was sustained, and the appeal is from this judgment.

From the affidavits and interrogatories it appears that the Mesas are Cuban refugees with a limited knowledge of English; that the husband is a physician employed by Central State Hospital, Baldwin County; that their daughter speaks, reads, and writes English without difficulty; that…