American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employes v. Bucher

SPORKIN, J.,

This case is presently before the court, after months of litigation, upon the motion of all counsel for approval of a stipulation in compromise and settlement of this entire controversy.1 As is the case with any attempt to settle a case by stipulation rather than by a *714praecipe to settle, discontinue and end the matter, the court is called upon to give its sanction or approval to the terms agreed upon by the litigants. As chancellor, the writer must, consequently, review the terms of the compromise proposal, to assure that such settlement is a bargained-for agreement, forged out of…