Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Sims
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 28, 1993No. 1911395PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
We granted the writ of certiorari to review the holding by the Court of Civil Appeals that settlement agreements entered into in the trial court are controlled by the provisions of Rule 47, Ala.R.App.P., and that the settlement agreement signed by Willie J. Dunn, the respondent here, and his attorney, was invalid because "[t]he written document was not properly executed, i.e., not signed by the party to be charged, and the record does not contain the necessary indicia of a settlement reached in open court." Dunn v. Sims, 627 So.2d 378 (Ala.Civ.App. 1992). We hold that the Court of Civil…
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