Ryan v. Alexy

This case raises again the question of the legal efficacy of a release for per*51sonal injuries sustained in an automobile collision. The release involved is tbe usual insurance company form wbicb attempts, within the limits of language, to constitute itself full and final for all injuries “known and unknown.” A chancery action was brought to set it aside on the ground of mutual mistake. A decree of partial reformation was granted. Defendants appeal.

Perhaps some of the difficulty in this field arises from the language in Denton v. Utley, 350 Mich 332, 339, 340, wherein former Justice Talbot…