Vela v. Hope Lumber & Supply Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]n agreement to settle a claim constitutes a contract between the parties which should not be set aside absent fraud, duress, undue influence, or mistake.”
• further noting that, as in this case, “[the plaintiffs] understood the nature and consequences of [their] acceptance of the settlement terms, and [the parties’] Agreement contain[ed] no ambiguity which could have caused its execution by mistake”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).