Pons v. Schmidt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that where the plaintiff has released a co-defendant from all liability, a court calculates the plaintiff’s recovery by subtracting the released co-defendant’s liability from the total amount of liability
• “This intention [to release the settling defendant from all liability] ... does not affect the cause of action asserted against the other codefendants ... insofar as it was so expressly agreed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).