WEST v. CAROLINA HOUSING & MORTGAGE CORP.

19010.

211 Ga. 789 (1955)

89 S.E.2d 188

WEST et al. v. CAROLINA HOUSING & MORTGAGE CORP. et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Zorn, for plaintiffs in error.

Marion C. Pritchard, contra.


DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

1. "One having the capacity and opportunity to read a written contract, and who signs it, not under any emergency, and whose signature is not obtained by any trick or artifice of the other party, can not afterwards set up fraud in the procurement of his signature to the instrument." Truitt-Silvey Hat Co. v. Callaway & Truitt, 130 Ga. 637 (61 S. E. 481); Lewis v. Foy, 189 Ga. 596 (6 S.E.2d 788).

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