Habgood v. Van Dyke Taxi & Transfer, Inc.

The complaint in this action sets out a cause of action for negligently injuring plaintiff’s wife, and alleges as a second cause of action that the parties undertook to settle the claim in negligence and “ entered into a contract and agreement by which the defendants agreed to settle and compromise said cause of action with this plaintiff and to make a fair and reasonable settlement with the plaintiff for the damages sustained by his wife- * * * that he accepted such proposed settlement and so advised the' defendant, and that as a part of such settlement plaintiff undertook not to place his…