Dozier v. Rhodus

hi respectfully dissent. A transaction or compromise is an agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing. This contract must be either reduced into writing or recited in open court and capable of being transcribed from the 12record of the proceeding. LSA-C.C. art. 3071 (in effect prior to its amendment by 2007 La. Acts, No. 138, § 1).

Depositions and writings signed only by a…