Browne v. Merchants Co.

In a collision between a passenger car driven by appellant ’s wife and a commercial truck driven by a servant of appellee, both the wife and a minor daughter of appellant were severely injured. An action was brought by the daughter, through her mother as next friend, for the injuries suffered by the daughter, which action was settled and compromised. Appellant, although not a party to that action, joined in the release executed as a result of this settlement, but the release carefully limited its terms to the damages suffered by the daughter, and to any right of action which appellant or the…