Opinion ID: 2608815
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: settlement of legal actions

Text: Fitzgeralds' first assertion is that Corbett and Gurr breached the settlement agreement by failing to settle all legal actions, lawsuits, appeals to the Supreme Court, etc., concerning Leland A. and Helen S. Fitzgerald and all their Cedar Valley property. The only legal actions existing at the time the settlement agreement was signed were two appeals on file in the Utah Supreme Court. Both of those appeals were dismissed with prejudice on November 1, 1982, pursuant to Fitzgeralds' motion to dismiss that went purposely unopposed by Corbett and Gurr. The fact that subsequent hearings were held in February 1983, with regard to the judgment entered in the first trial does not amount to a breach of the agreement. The hearings and appeals concerned damages awarded in the judgment to defendants II, who were co-defendants in the first suit. The hearings and the subsequent second appeal involved only a tangential clarification of the previous judgment respecting Lee and Helen Fitzgerald. There was no breach of the settlement agreement arising out of the hearings held subsequent to the signing of the agreement.