Does the single satisfaction rule apply to a tortfeasor?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Milicevich v. Sacramento Medical Center, 155 Cal.App.3d 997, 202 Cal.Rptr. 484 (Cal. App. 1984):
The single satisfaction rule is not based upon the effect of the judgment itself, which, in any event, does not preclude pursuit of joint or concurrent tortfeasors. (See e.g. Grundel v. Union Iron Works (1900) 127 Cal. 438, 59 P. 826; Rest.2d Judgments, 49, com. a, p. 34.) 4 Rather, the rule in Fletcher is "designed to prevent
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