KRENIS
v.
JAMES, ET AL.
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A client may repudiate a settlement agreement negotiated by her attorney without authority and before the client's acceptance, so the defendant's motion to enforce the settlement was denied.
A client may repudiate a settlement agreement entered into by her attorney at any time before the client's actual acceptance.
[1] A client may repudiate a settlement agreement negotiated by her attorney without actual authority at any time before the client's acceptance of the agreement.
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Plaintiff Krenis employed attorney Joseph Rosenkrantz, who negotiated a settlement with all defendants without authority. When advised of the settleme…
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This cause having come on to be heard on motion by the defendant, George Robert James, to dismiss the cause with prejudice to the plaintiff, or in the alternative, to compel plaintiff to consummate a settlement negotiated by plaintiff’s attorney with all of the defendants, and the plaintiff having filed in response to said motion an affidavit in which plaintiff denied that her attorney had any authority to settle her claim and that she had refused to ratify the settlement made by her attorney, and the court having heard testimony, and having heard argument of counsel, the court now finds the following as fact—
(a) That the plaintiff employed Joseph Rosenkrantz, Esq. as her attorney.
(b) That the said Joseph Rosenkrantz did not have authority to settle plaintiff’s claim.
*27(c) That the plaintiff, when advised of the settlement attempted to be negotiated on her behalf by her attorney, repudiated said settlement.
Under the law of this jurisdiction a client may repudiate an agreement entered into on his behalf by his attorney at any time up to actual acceptance by the client. Osius v. Hastings, 97 So. 2d 623; Palm Beach Royal Hotel v. Breese, 154 So. 2d 698; Bursten v. Green, 172 So. 2d 472; Goff v. Indian Lake Estates, 178 So. 2d 910; and Walters v. Boschia, 179 So. 2d 133.
Wherefore, it is ordered and adjudged that the motion by defendant, George Robert James, aforedescribed, be and it is hereby denied, the cause to proceed to trial, upon due notice by counsel for any of the parties.
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- Goff v. Indian Lake Ests., Inc., 178 So. 2d 910 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965)
- Bursten v. Hyman Green and Irving Green, 172 So. 2d 472 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965)
- Palm Beach Royal Hotel, Inc. v. Breese, 154 So. 2d 698 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963)
- Servet Zeko v. Gertrude Gleason, 97 So. 2d 623 (Fla. 3d DCA 1957)
- Osius v. Hastings, 97 So. 2d 623 (Fla. 3d DCA 1957)
- Walters v. Boscia, 179 So. 2d 133 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965)