Mazzella v. Koken

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where “ambiguities and undetermined matters” render a settlement agreement “impossible to understand and enforce,” the agreement should be set aside in favor of a trial on the merits
• stating where parties agreed to material terms of bargain, the settlement agreement will be enforced
• “If, however, there exist ambiguities and undetermined matters which render a settlement agreement impossible to understand and enforce^] such an agreement must be set aside.” (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “it is essential to the enforceability of a [contract] that ‘the minds of the parties should meet upon all the terms’ ”
• “there must be manifested mutual assent to the terms of a bargain” in order for a settlement to be enforced (citation omitted)
• “[w]here the parties have agreed on the essential terms of a contract, the fact that they intend to formalize then-agreement in writing but have not yet done so does not prevent enforcement of such an agreement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).