USM CORP.

v.

SCHLEGEL MANUFACTURING CO.

Citator

Cited By (46 total)

• Robbie v. City OF Miami, 469 So. 2d 1384 (Fla. 1985)
  …erpretation of contracts. Dorson v. Dorson, 393 So. 2d 632 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). Additionally, settlements are highly favored and will be enforced whenever possible. See Pearson v. Ecological Science Corp., 522 F. 2d 171 (5th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 425 U.S. 912, 96 S.Ct. 1508, 47 L.Ed.2d 762 (1976); Dorson. In the case sub judice the disagreement over the application of the Act of God provision to the tenth game was a mere contingency. It was not, as the district court below determined, an essential eleme…
• Dorson v. Gertrude Dorson, 393 So. 2d 632 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981)
  …Inc. v. Dania Bank, 252 So. 2d 1, 4 (Fla.1971). This is especially true of settlement agreements which are highly favored in the law. Pearson v. Ecological Science Corp., 522 F. 2d 171, rehearing denied, 525 F. 2d 1407 (5th Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 425 U.S. 912, 96 S.Ct. 1508, 47 L.Ed.2d 762 (1976). See also 10 Fla.Jur.2d Compromise, Accord and Release § 9. Also applicable to settlement agreements is the rule that they are to be interpreted by the same principles governing the interpretation of contracts.…
• Lotspeich Co. v. Neogard Corp., 416 So. 2d 1163 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982)
  …ssible because they are means of amicably resolving doubts and preventing lawsuits, Pearson v. Ecological Science Corp., 522 F. 2d 171 (5th Cir. 1975), reh. denied, 525 F. 2d 1407 (5th Cir. 1975), cert. denied in Skydell v. Ecological Science Corp., 425 U.S. 912, 96 S.Ct. 1508, 47 L.Ed.2d 762 (1976); Coe v. Deiner, 159 So. 2d 269 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964); Russell v. Shelby Mutual Insurance Company, 128 So. 2d 161 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961), cert. disch., 137 So. 2d 219 (1962), and should not be invalidated or, as here, c…