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MARTINO v. KASCHAK

208 A.D.2d 698 (1994)

617 N.Y.S.2d 529

Carmine Martino et al., Appellants, v. Robert J. Kaschak, Respondent, et al., Defendant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 17, 1994

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

A party is under an obligation to read a document before he or she signs it, and a party cannot generally avoid the effect of a release on the ground that he or she did not read it or know its contents (see, Pimpinello v Swift & Co., 253 N.Y. 159; Touloumis v Chalem, 156 A.D.2d 230). Thus, "`a party will not be excused from his failure to read and understand...

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