¶1*840Mr. Warren E. Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellant.
¶2Mr. Richard W. Galiher, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. William E. Stewart, Jr., William H. Clarke and John H. Verchot, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.
¶3Before Wilbur K. Miller, Senior Circuit Judge, and Danaher and McGowan, Circuit Judges.
¶5Claiming damages for injuries alleged to have been caused on April 19, 1960 by the negligence of the appellees, the appellant, an experienced attorney, in June demanded under threat of suit, that a prompt settlement be made. When the insurance carrier requested a medical examination, the appellant testified he informed the adjuster he had just been examined by his own doctor who had taken an X-ray, and his doctor would be willing to give a written statement as to what he had found and what his diagnosis was. The adjuster accepted that arrangement, and the appellant sent the doctor’s statement1 to the adjuster.
¶6Thereupon the appellant and the adjuster agreed upon the amounts to be ascribed to the several items of damage in the total sum of $399.48. On June 10, 1960, a release was executed by the appellant and a draft for the damages as agreed was delivered to him. Included was an item of $150, “For plaintiff’s injuries.”
¶7The appellant testified that three weeks later he participated at a two-day agency hearing where fans were operating “all around the wall.” He thought he had there caught a cold when he commenced to experience pain in the back of his neck and right shoulder, radiating down the right arm into his fingers. Again consulting his doctor, a course of treatment and diagnosis was undertaken which led one of the appellant’s doctors to conclude that the collision had aggravated pre-existing osteoarthritic changes in the cervical spine. An attack of hives thereafter was thought to have been due to an “anxiety” statfe. Following an operation, the appellant recovered, and within some two months of the release he was able to resume normal activities.
¶8Appellant sued, seeking to repudiate the settlement, obtain a cancellation of the release, and to recover damages. There was no evidence whatever that the *841insurance adjuster had induced the settlement or that he had been guilty of misrepresentation in any respect. There was no evidence that the insurance carrier had knowledge of some different physical injury, or that its representative had suppressed any information material to the dealings incidental to the settlement.
¶9The trial judge deemed it unnecessary to decide whether the appellant’s complaints in July, 1960 were caused by the accident. His opinion 2 noted:
“Admittedly there was no fraud, no concealment, and no unconscionable conduct on the part of the defendant and his representatives. No pressure' was exerted, no persuasion exercised, and no inducement was extended by any one on the defendant’s behalf to secure plaintiff’s agreement to the settlement.”
¶10The trial judge concluded that the appellant had failed to establish a basis for invalidation of the release. We think the case was properly decided.
¶11Affirmed.