Thornton v. Charleston Area Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “we deem it patently illogical to conclusively presume, in the absence of particular language indicative of such intention, that a release of the original tort-feasor bars recovery from the subsequent tort-feasor”
• abrogating rule that release of original tortfeasor necessarily releases successive tortfeasors, observing that such rule “may, in fact, prove to be a trap for the unwary layman who is ignorant of the law”
• “At common law, an injured party may have only one full recovery. ...”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).