Beck v. Batt’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Where a creditor and debtor have a dispute as to the amount of a debt, and the debtor remits checks for the amount of what he .contends the debt to be, intending such remittance to be in full payment thereof, and the creditor accepts and knowingly retains the amount thus remitted, the legal consequence is that of an accord and satisfaction, notwithstanding the creditor immediately wrote to the debtor stating that' he had deposited the checks, indorsed under protest, and that he expected the debtor to pay him the balance claimed by him to be still due from defendant.” (Syl.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Liston v. Rice