Emerald Investments Ltd. Partnership v. Allmerica Financial Life Insurance & Annuity Co.

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that after a settlement agreement has been breached, the nonbreaching party may abandon the settlement agreement and sue for damages
• “If a party to a contract breaks it, the other party can abandon the contract . . . and sue for damages, or it can continue with the contract and sue for damages . . . . But if it makes the latter election, it is bound to the obligations that the contract imposes on it.”
• “If a party to a contract breaks it, the other party can abandon the contract . . . and sue for damages, or it can continue with the contract and sue for damages . . . . But if it makes the latter election, it is bound to the obligations that the contract imposes on it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).