Compromise Agreement Validity Despite Prior Judgment on Settled Point

Compromise Agreement Validity Despite Prior Judgment on Settled Point: A plaintiff, having entered into a compromise agreement settling a prior dispute, subsequently sought to have that agreement annulled on the basis of error regarding the substance of the matter, arguing that the agreement addressed an element that had already been definitively resolved in a prior judgment, but the court upheld the lower court's decision rejecting the annulment, reasoning that the compromise agreement, by its nature as a contract designed to terminate existing litigation through mutual concession, implicitly included acceptance of the existing situation, including any previously settled points, and therefore, the alleged error concerning a settled point did not vitiate consent because the agreement's purpose was to settle all matters in dispute, regardless of prior judicial pronouncements on specific elements.