Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Ritz

Langenbach, J. †

— The defendants have appealed from a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff insurance com pany. The only issue is whether a full and final general release of all claims included a release of claims for medical expenses where a plea to the contrary raised no suggestion of fraud, overreaching, questionable conduct, misrepresentation, incapacity or mutual mistake.

There is no question of fact. Under these circumstances the release of all claims included all claims as a matter of law. Pepper v. Evanson, ante p. 309, 422 P.2d 817 (1967); Beaver v. Estate of Harris, 67 Wn.2d…