Smith v. Raparot

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the release of a servant did not release the master from liability under the Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act
• holding that where indemnity governs the apportionment of loss between the tort-feasors, the release provisions of the Act do not apply
• holding that under the plain language of the Uniform Act, a release of a servant which by its terms applies only to the servant’s liability does not release the master of claims under respondeat superior doctrine
• \[t]hat language is plain and unambiguous. It declares its own sensible meaning and leaves no room for judicial construction\
• “[t]hat language is plain and unambiguous. It declares its own sensible meaning and leaves no room for judicial construction”
• \That [definition] is plain and unambiguous. It declares its own sensible meaning and leaves no room for judicial construction.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).