Cullen v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “[AJnything received by way of a covenant not to sue operates as a payment pro tanto upon any judgment obtained against the others.”
• \[A]nything received by way of a covenant not to sue operates as a payment pro tanto upon any judgment obtained against the others.\
• \[Playments made to the victim from non-collateral sources-such as the tortfeasor's insurance company or a joint tortfea-sor-reduce the tortfeasor's liability.\
• \[P]ayments made to the victim from non-collateral sources—such as the tortfeasor's insurance company or a joint tortfeasor—reduce the tortfeasor's liability.\
• no illegal assignment of tort claim where in surer had interest in wrongful death action
• Loan receipt agreement ineffective but held to be valid as covenant not to sue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).