DENTON v. UTLEY

Docket No. 27, Calendar No. 46,894.

350 Mich. 332 (1957)

86 N.W.2d 537

DENTON v. UTLEY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul B. Mayrand and George Stone, for plaintiff.

Carl F. Davidson (Roy P. Nelson, of counsel), for defendants.


SMITH, J.

This case must be read with great care. We are upsetting the particular release here involved. We are not saying that all releases are vulnerable. What we are saying is that releases have no particular immunity of their own to attack on the ground of mistake or fraud.* There is no form of words, there is no formula, no instrument, no transaction, that rises above the chancellor's scrutiny...

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