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101 N.H. 403

Dolph v. Hager

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided October 7, 1958

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1958-10-07

Relies on Clover Cutting Die Co. v. Sam Smith Shoe Corp.

Decided 1958-10-07

Blandin, J.

¶1The issue before the Trial Court was whether a binding agreement for settlement had been made between the parties. The record discloses that the defendant’s attorney testified that an agreement had been reached, which opposing counsel and his client unequivocally denied. The defendant’s attorney stresses the fact that he wrote plaintiff’s counsel a letter “in confirmation” *404of the alleged agreement, setting forth its terms, to which he received no written reply. While this evidence was entitled to consideration, it was by no means conclusive in the face of the record as a whole, especially in view of plaintiff’s counsel’s statement that “within two or three days” of the receipt of this letter he telephoned defendant’s attorney and told him no agreement had been made. The sharp conflict in testimony was plainly for the Court to resolve. Clover &c. Co. v. Smith Co., 96 N. H. 491, 493. Since the evidence supported the result reached the order is

¶2Exception overruled.

Wheeler, J., did not sit; the others concurred.
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