Ross v. Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*322In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for false imprisonment, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (O’Rourke, J.), dated December 23, 2004, which denied her motion to vacate a stipulation of settlement entered in open court on February 27, 2004.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court correctly denied the plaintiffs motion to vacate the stipulation of settlement. An “open-court stipulation is an independent contract between the parties . . . and will be enforced according to its terms unless there is proof of fraud, duress,…
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