Janney v. Virginian Railway Co.

Maxwell, Judge :

This certification presents the question: Where a person who has suffered personal injury, executes, for valuable consideration, a release granting full acquittance of legal liability to the person charged with responsibility for the injury, may the injured party later, in an action at law against the other party for damages for the injury, avoid the legal import and effect of such receipt on the sole ground of mistake? The circuit court answered this query in the negative and certified its ruling here for review.

The action is prosecuted under the Federal Employers’ Liability…