Cohen v. Santoianni

How courts have described this case

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• even despite “suspicious circumstances[,]” “[i]t is elementary that fraud is never presumed, but must be affirmatively alleged and proved by the party who relies upon it for the purpose of either attack or defense.”
• “The general rule is that, in the absence of fraud, one who signs a written agreement is bound by its terms whether he reads and understands it or not or whether he can read or not”
• “One who knowingly signs a writing that is obviously a legal document without bothering to ascertain the contents of the writing is ordinarily bound by its terms, in the same manner as if he had been fully aware of those terms”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).