Maynard v. First Bank

Citations

• 56 Wash. 486
• 106 P. 182
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 831

Syllabus

<p>Compromise and Settlement — Mistake—Evidence—Sufficiency. A finding that there was no mistake or fraud in a compromise and settlement is justified by the evidence, where after action brought upon an account extending over a period of years, the parties got together, the accounts were gone over, item by item, and $3,550 was finally paid in full satisfaction of claims amounting to $4,743.85; and it appears that the claim of mistake related to a note of $700 and interest which had been twice charged in the account, which double charge was admitted, but there was evidence that a credit was given for the double charge prior to the settlement, and the note was one of the disputed items in the settlement.</p>