Albers v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “in the absence of fraud, a unilateral mistake will not excuse nonperformance of a contract”
• recognizing defendant “believed the documents pertained to a loan transaction and did not read the agreement carefully because the parties were rushed to get everything finished”
• stating that “the fact that a party signs a contract and does not know its contents is not alone sufficient to permit that party to void it”
• “As a general rule, . . . in the absence of fraud, a unilateral mistake will not excuse nonperformance of a contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).