PETERS v. WALLACH


366 Mass. 622 (1975)

321 N.E.2d 806

PAUL A. PETERS & others vs. STANLEY WALLACH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Wolfe for the defendants.

Sumner Z. Kaplan (Jerry E. Benezra & Lawrence C. Zalcman with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: TAURO, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


BRAUCHER, J.

This is a suit in equity to enforce an agreement for the settlement of an earlier suit. Successive references and recommittals to masters resulted in a procedural nightmare and eventually in a final decree enforcing the settlement agreement. We hold, on the basis of the findings of the masters, that the settlement agreement was valid and enforceable in equity, and affirm the final decree.

Beginning in 1961 the defendant Stanley Wallach (Wallach...

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