Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Roy

A suit was originally filed by Mrs. A. G. Roy, in the city court of Madison, against the defendants in this suit, to recover damages for the homicide of her son. On the trial of tho ease in the city court, the- defendants pleaded a release, and offered a written instrument signed by the plaintiff, reciting that for a stated consideration she released the Empire Cotton Oil Companj from any claim incident to the above-stated homicide. The defendants contended that this operated in law as a release of them, under the principle of law that a settlement in full by one joint tort-feasor releases…