Key legal question
What is the effect of the claim withdrawal with consent on the prior judgments of the lower courts?
Extracted holding
The judgments of the Landgericht Stendal and the Higher Regional Court of Saxony-Anhalt became without effect.
Extracted reasoning
Because the plaintiff validly withdrew the action with the defendant's consent, the procedural consequence under § 269(3) sentence 1 and § 269(4) ZPO was that the prior judgments lost their effect.