Legal Opinion
Peters v. Wallach
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 10, 1975PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
This is a suit in equity to enforce an agreement for the settlement of an earlier suit. Successive references and recommittals to masters resulted in a procedural nightmare and eventually in a final decree enforcing the settlement agreement. We hold, on the basis of the findings of the masters, that the settlement agreement was valid and enforceable in equity, and affirm the final decree.
Beginning in 1961 the defendant Stanley Wallach (Wall-ach) was associated with the plaintiffs in a cheese importing business. He and his wife owned about one-third of the stock of the two plaintiff…
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