PELL, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff Homer Burrus brought this action for breach of a compromise agreement, which he alleges had been intended to settle a tort action. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on the ground that since, upon breach of the compromise agreement, Burrus had prosecuted the original tort action to a final judgment, he was precluded from now bringing a suit based on breach of the compromise agreement. The plaintiff appeals...
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