Blankenheim v. E. F. Hutton & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under § 1668, “a party may not contract away liability for fraudulent or intentional acts”
• holding exculpatory clause in investment contract invalid insofar as it attempts to disclaim liability for fraud or misrepresentation
• stating that “a party may not contract away 14 liability for fraudulent or . . . negligent violations of statutory law.”
• plaintiffs were fraudulently induced into 1 the hold harmless clauses to exempt it from “responsibility for its own misrepresentations”
• plaintiffs were fraudulently induced into 25 signing agreements with hold harmless clauses; section 1668 prevented the defendant from relying 26 on the hold harmless clauses to exempt it from “responsibility for its own misrepresentations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).