Black v. Wichita Union Terminal Railway Co.

Citations

• 103 Kan. 332
• 173 P. 1068
• 1918 Kan. LEXIS 256

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Personal Injuries — Damages—Written Release and Satisfaction — Oral Promises. Where the undisputed evidence and the special findings of the jury show that a written contract for the settlement, release and satisfaction of a claim for damages was executed by the claimant with full knowledge and understanding that the question of his future employment could not be considered in negotiating and effecting the contract 'of settlement, an oral promise of an agent of the wrongdoer assuring the claimant of future employment, which promise was given to induce claimant to make the contract, but which was not kept nor intended to be kept, is insufficient to vitiate the contract of settlement.</p>