Wise v. Riley

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a plaintiffs insistence on an impossible term is not material
• noting that Mitchell “asked [Oltchiek] to make [the check] out to the estate of the deceased and to him” instead of State Farm’s normal practice of making the check out “to the executor of the estate” and the attorney
• finding the defendant’s payoff amount to be a material term of a settlement agreement
• describing Mitchell as saying “you know, [w]e’ll accept your offer of $100,000”
• when the parties have otherwise agreed on a general release in a settlement, the specific language of the release is a “non-issue”
• Mitchell notes that he received a check payable to the specific payee that he discussed on the phone with Oltchiek

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).