Barone v. Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when a contract provision is clear and unambiguous, “the standard of review is de novo, and the appellate court may reach a different interpretation than the trial court”
• noting that an evidentiary hearing was required to determine whether there was a meeting of the minds regarding terms of settlement agreement or, if not, whether the disputed term was an essential element such that without assent to the term no contract came into existence
• “As settlement agreements are contractual in nature, they are interpreted and governed by contract law.”
• an evidentiary hearing was required to determine whether a meeting of the minds existed regarding a settlement agreement’s term or, if not, whether the disputed term was an essential element such that without assent to the term no contract came into existence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).