Mansfield v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

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• applying disparate analyses for the discharge of claims by release with the discharge of claims by accord and satisfaction
• there is nothing in language of release to support a holding the parties contemplated a discharge of any subsequent claims
• settlement and issuance of final payment constitutes accord and satisfaction only as to the claims considered during the settlement negotiations
• a release of preexisting claims by an accord and satisfaction is the “ ‘rendering of some performance different from that which was claimed as due and the acceptance of such substituted performance by the claimant as full satisfaction’ ”

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