Court Opinion

ID: 9689970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:50:32.027811+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:52.939742
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GARTZKE, P.J.
(dissenting). The majority correctly conclude that the letters between the attorneys for Marks and Gohlke were insufficient to create an enforceable stipulation between the parties under sec. 807.05, Stats. That conclusion does not affect the result. The court found as a fact that Gohlke authorized his attorney to settle for $5,578.75. That finding is *755uncontested on appeal. That agreement was executed by entry of judgment and merged into the judgment. Production Credit Ass’n v. Laufenberg, 143 Wis. 2d 200, 205, 420 N.W.2d 778, 779 (Ct. App. 1988).
Section 807.05, Stats., is in the nature of a statute of frauds. Adelmeyer v. Wis. Elec. Power Co., 135 Wis. 2d 367, 369, 400 N.W.2d 473, 475 (Ct. App. 1986). An executed agreement will not be set aside merely because before its execution it did not comply with the statute of frauds.