Garren v. City of Winston-Salem

How later courts describe this case

• uncertainty in the law is a factor which normally commends compromise to district court's discretion
• where juror becomes ill after jury deliberations commence, court's first duty is to secure medical assistance notwithstanding statutory provision prohibiting jurors from speaking with non-jurors
• construing TMT in context of settlement of derivative suit
• “in any case there is a range of reasonableness with regard to a settlement — a range which recognizes the uncertainties of law and fact in any particular case and the concomitant risks and costs necessarily inherent in taking any litigation to completion”
• “in any case there is a range of reasonableness with respect to a settlement — a range which recognizes the uncertainties of law and fact in any particular case and the concomitant risks and costs necessarily inherent in taking any litigation to completion”