Raynale v. Yellow Cab Co.

BISHOP, J., pro tem.

Admitting that its negligence caused the accident which resulted in injury to plaintiff, the defendant corporation seeks to escape the $3,000 judgment entered against it because of a $25 release which it secured from the plaintiff within an hour and a quarter after the accident. There is the expected conflict in the evidence, but the jury’s acceptance of the plaintiff’s version of the facts establishes them for the purposes of this appeal. Her testimony was that she had no more than returned home after the accident, when defendant’s representatives called; she had just…