Quaintance Associates, Inc. v. PLM, INC.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the plaintiff’s acceptance of a payment, which was accompanied by a letter stating the defendant would only pay 60% of the disputed amount and considered the matter closed, revealed that the plaintiff understood that the check was offered as a compromise and settlement
• an accord “presupposes a disagreement as to the amount due”
• “The partial payment of a fixed and certain demand which is due and not in dispute is no satisfaction of the whole debt even where the creditor agrees to receive a part for the whole and gives a receipt for the whole demand.”
• an accord “presupposes a disagreement as to the amount due”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).