Frey Ex Rel. Frey v. Snelgrove

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when a settling 11 defendant “is called to testify by one of the remaining parties, the trial court should inform the jury of the effect of the release, so that they might consider any bias of the witness”
• the “terms of the release” determine whether “the plaintiff has agreed to indemnify the settling defendant against all possible cross-claims of the nonsettling parties.”
• “If there is evidence of conduct which, if believed by the jury, would constitute negligence (or fault) on the part of [the settling defendants], the fault or negligence of th[e settling defendants] should be submitted to the jury.” (quotation omitted)
• approving use of Pierringer release

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).