Compton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The defendants . . . rely upon the settlement and compromise made while the (former) suit was pending, in 1899. The master found and reported that the deed to the north half ... was . . . delivered by them (defendants) to complainant and accepted by him in full satisfaction and discharge of all matters in controversy between him and said defendants regarding the transaction of the conveyance of the two hundred acres to Johnson and Avery. The court found and recited the same thing in the decree. . . . The weight of the proof tends to support these findings, and although it was an absurd settlement for complainant, yet if he agreed to it, courts are powerless to set it aside.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sontag v. New York Life Insurance