C & S Truck Line v. Valentine

OPINION

KEITH, Justice.

Defendant below appeals from an order which vacated in part an earlier order which set aside completely an agreed judgment. We reverse and render for the reasons now to be stated.

On October 30,1981, an agreed judgment was entered whereby defendant paid a total sum of $7,500 to the several plaintiffs in a suit for personal injuries. The trial court apportioned the recovery among the adult plaintiffs and two minors. John Valentine, an adult plaintiff, accepted the sum of $5,000 awarded to him and the sums awarded to the two minor plaintiffs were paid into the registry of…