Ristau v. Wescold, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding the parties’ general release agreement as it applied to a statutory claim for fraud in the inducement
• “A release agreement is a contract subject to the rules of contract construction and interpretation.”
• “A release agreement is a contract subject to the rules of contract construction and interpretation.”
• “[W]e will enforce an unambiguous release that covers the claim at issue.”
• “[W]e will enforce an unambiguous release that covers the claim at issue.”
• “As this court held in Glickman v. Weston, 140 Or 117, 125, 11 P2d 281, 12 P2d 1005 (1932), a general release from all claims and demands is sufficient to bar a specific claim, unless the claim is excepted from the release agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).