California Court of Appeal

The trial court's decision to set aside a default judgment obtained by plaintiff following defendant's breach of a settlement agreement for failure to make timely payments pursuant to the terms of the settlement agreement is affirmed, where: 1) the stipulation in the settlement agreement bore no reasonable relationship to the damages that it could be expected that plaintiff would suffer as a result of a breach by defendant; and 2) the judgment was improperly entered as "punitive damages."

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/17/2014
• Published 03/17/2014

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• NARES

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• California Court of Appeal

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