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JENKINS v. FIELDS

No. 164.

83 S.E.2d 908 (1954)

240 N.C. 776

James H. JENKINS, Administrator of the Estate of Edwin G. Johnson, Deceased, v. John Everett Fairbanks FIELDS, Norfolk Tallow Company, Inc., and Greenville By-Products Company, Inc.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 20, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Jones & Jones, Ahoskie, and John R. Jenkins, Jr., Aulander, by John R. Jenkins, Jr., Aulander, for plaintiff, appellant.

Bertram S. Nusbaum, Norfolk, Va., and Alvin J. Eley, Ahoskie, for defendants, appellees.

PARKER, Justice.

A completed compromise and settlement fairly made between persons legally competent to contract and having the authority to do so with respect to the subject matter of the compromise, and supported by sufficient consideration, operates as a merger of, and bars all right to recover on, the claim or right of action included therein, as would a judgment duly entered in an action between said persons. Snyder v. Kenan Oil Co., 235 N.C. 119...

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