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· 1/9/1986

Mary Ellen Winston v. Mediafare Entertainment Corporation, Gallavants, Inc., and Ralph Smith

Citations

  • 777 F.2d 78

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that a settlement agreement for payment of $62,500 payable over several years, although only four pages long, was required to be in writing
  • explaining that though there was no express reservation, “language in the correspondence does reveal such an intent”
  • determining that a four-page settlement agreement | 10 was one that should be reduced to writing
  • finding that an agreement involving payments over several years based on a percentage of earnings should have been in writing given that the parties found the contract substantial enough to re-draft the language
  • finding a four page settlement agreement that contained obligations that would last over several years sufficiently complex to require reduction to writing
  • describing a dispute involving $62,000, with payments to be made over several years, as a type of agreement that should be reduced to writing

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Judges: Van Graafeiland, Pratt, Trade

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