Devereaux v. Citizens & Southern National Bank

Banke, Presiding Judge.

Dorothy Jean Devereaux appeals a judgment entered in her favor based on a settlement agreement she purportedly reached with the appellee-defendants. The suit is based on the alleged wrongful repossession and subsequent sale of the plaintiff’s automobile. During a pre-trial conference, Ms. Devereaux’s attorney verbally offered to settle the case for $5,000, and he mailed a letter to the defendants the following day confirming this offer. The defendants accepted the offer in writing two days later. However, counsel for the plaintiff asserts, and has stated in his place,…