Carlile v. Snap-On Tools

How courts have described this case

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• finding general release did not bar fraud claim where “[n]o evidence indicate[d] plaintiff was aware of a legal fraud claim when he signed the release”
• courts are reluctant to apply the parol evidence rule to a release and instead consider the circumstances of the release transaction to determine the parties’ intention
• \Economic duress is present where one is induced by a wrongful act of another to make a contract under circumstances depriving him of the exercise of free will.\
• “Where there are words of general release in addition to recitals of specific claims, the words of general release are limited to the particular claim to which reference is made.”
• “Even where the parties intend to release a specific claim, the release of that claim will not be enforced if there has been fraud, duress, mutual mistake, or, at least in some cases, unconscionability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).