Carona v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the intention of the parties controls the scope and effect of the release”
• noting that “the intention of the parties controls the scope and effect of the release”
• “It is well established that the intention of the parties controls the scope and effect of the release, and that this intent is discerned from the language used and the circumstances of the transaction.”
• “A release is a contract wherein a party relinquishes a claim to a person against whom the claim exists, and a release is subject to the rules governing the construction of contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).