CARO v. SMITH

Docket Nos. G016245, G016461.

59 Cal.App.4th 725 (1997)

JULIA A. CARO, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOAN IRVINE SMITH, Defendant and Appellant. JULIA A. CARO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JOAN IRVINE SMITH, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

November 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James R. Traut for Plaintiff and Respondent and for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Baraban & Teske, Jeffrey H. Baraban and James S. Link for Defendant and Appellant.


OPINION

CROSBY, J.

Oral contracts, Samuel Goldwyn is widely quoted as saying, are not worth the paper they are written on. Defendant's lawyers would give the same short shrift to a stipulation signed by one of them to submit a personal injury claim to binding arbitration. They call the stipulation worthless because their client did not personally sign it. They say plaintiff's counsel acted at his peril in taking them at their word...

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