McWATERS v. PARKER

No. 92-2082.

995 F.2d 1366 (1993)

Jeffery G. McWATERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Thomas Lee PARKER and Creasy Trucking, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1993.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing July 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Kennedy, Tammy S. Sestak (argued), Spangler, Jennings & Dougherty, Merrillville, IN, George R. Livarchik, Livarchik & Farahmand, Chesteron, IN, for plaintiff-appellant.

John M. McCrum, Eichhorn, Eichhorn & Link, Hammond, IN, Jon M. Pinnick (argued), Frederick H. Link, Eichhorn, Eichhorn & Link, Merrillville, IN, for defendants-appellees.

Before COFFEY and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and HOLDERMAN, District Judge.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

On March 6, 1991, Jeffery McWaters filed a complaint against the defendants to recover damages for injuries he sustained in a car accident. On April 8, 1992, the district court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment, concluding that a release agreement executed by Jeffery barred his personal injury suit. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Facts

In the early hours of February 1, 1990, in Gary, Indiana, twenty...

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