Fulkerson v. Thornton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the assertion that the release bars the plaintiff’s suit . . . is an affirmative defense”
• noting that physicians- are not jointly liable with original tortfeasors because physicians’ liability “arises solely from their alleged negligent conduct which aggravated the plaintiffs existing injury”
• release of original tortfeasor and “any and all other persons, firms, and corporations” does not, as matter of law, release maltreating physician, who is not a joint tort-feasor but rather a “successive or independent” wrongdoer
• discussing distinction between covenant not to sue and release

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).