Effect of executed agreement to settle dispute generally.

- When there is a bona fide dispute between parties either as to the amount of a claim or as to ultimate liability thereon, and this dispute is settled by an agreement which has been executed, the matter is and should be at an end. DeKalb County v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 159 Ga. App. 782, 285 S.E.2d 240 (1981).

Cited in Tarver v. Tarver, 53 Ga. 43 (1874); Wilder Bros. v. Montgomery, 51 Ga. App. 231, 179 S.E. 861 (1935); Carpet Transp., Inc. v. TMS Ins. Agency, Inc., 165 Ga. App. 734, 302 S.E.2d 421 (1983).

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Accord and Satisfaction, §§ 48, 49.

ALR.

- Failure to perform act required by new agreement as affecting character thereof as accord and satisfaction, 10 A.L.R. 222; 14 A.L.R. 230.

Part payment of liquidated indebtedness by, or with aid of, third person as consideration for its acceptance in discharge of entire debt, 41 A.L.R. 1490.

Trade acceptance or unsecured note or bill of debtor as accord and satisfaction, 62 A.L.R. 751.

Acceptance of amount appropriated on account of claim against state or other public body as bar to balance of claim, 70 A.L.R. 1208.

Income tax in respect of amount collected on a debt which had been deducted as a bad debt in the return for a previous year, 143 A.L.R. 338.

Validity and effect of agreement to pay original creditor part of debt refinanced under Federal Farm Loan Act, 147 A.L.R. 743.

Interest of spouse in estate by entireties as subject to satisfaction of his or her individual debt, 75 A.L.R.2d 1172.

Conveyance or surrender of property as an accord and satisfaction of contract obligation, 59 A.L.R.5th 665.