Sunn v. Mercury Marine

How courts have described this case

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• enforcing settlement where client was silent when settlement was read and failed to object to settlement or to attorney's continued appearance on his behalf
• enforc-ing settlement where client was silent when settlement was read and failed to object to settlement or to attorney's continued appearance on his behalf
• pleadings, judged by their function rather than their label, must be construed to serve the best interests of the pleader
• enforcing settlement where client was silent when settlement was read and failed to object to settlement or to attorney's continued appearance on his behalf
• question of whether attorney had authority to settle case is one of fact for trial court which accepted settlement
• a motion for new trial is the proper vehicle for attacking the trial court’s substantive determination of facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).