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BACIK v. WEAVER

No. 37153.

173 Ohio St. 214 (1962)

BACIK, ADMR., APPELLANT, v. WEAVER, ADMR., APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 14, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Kaplan, Kaplan & Lehman, for appellant.

Messrs. Finn, Manahan & Pietrykowski, for appellee.

TAFT, J.

Until the decision in Adams Express Co. v. Beckwith (1919), 100 Ohio St. 348, 126 N. E., 300, it was the law in this state that a written release of one joint tort-feasor operated as a release of all such tort-feasors even where rights were expressly reserved against some of them.

The syllabus in that case reads in part:

"3. Where such written releases expressly provide that the...

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