Bryan v. Creaves

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Our question here is as to the correctness of the District Court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ action upon defendant’s motion for summary judgment. Plaintiffs charged defendant as one of several joint tort-feasors, and the propriety of the District *378Court’s action depends upon whether two agreements made by them with certain others of the joint tort-feasors amounted in law to a satisfaction and release of the tort, thereby discharging not only those expressly released but also defendant, as one jointly liable, or whether the contracts constituted simply a covenant not to…