GREYHOUND CORPORATION v. KELLY

No. 598.

104 So.2d 471 (1958)

The GREYHOUND CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Wilton H. KELLY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

July 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Carver, of Carver & Langston, Lakeland, for appellant.

Sam Bucklew, of Bucklew, Ramsey & Phillips, Tampa, and J. Hardin Peterson, Jr., Lakeland, for appellee.


ALLEN, Acting Chief Judge.

This case is before this court on an interlocutory appeal in a common-law action. The appellant, as defendant below, moved for a summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiff had executed a release for valuable consideration to a joint tort-feasor. Defendant's theory was that as the cause of action accrued prior to the passage of Section 54.28, Fla. Stat., F.S.A. the defense of release of joint tort-feasor, available before passage of...

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