Affirmed, without costs.
Upon this record it is clear that the proposed $5,000 settlement was necessarily tentative, as the liens and assignments exceeded the money available. There is present here neither a written stipulation of settlement nor a settlement reached in open court and spread upon the minutes, which could be construed as a superseding agreement terminating the old cause of action and substituting therefor a new liability (see Langlois v. Langlois...
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