INTERNATIONAL INDEMNITY COMPANY v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that 52-month delay was unreasonable as a matter of law and not justified by insured’s illiteracy when the plaintiff knew of the policy’s existence, but did not have anyone read it to him
• “[Plaintiffs] illiteracy, in and of itself, provides no excuse for his. failure to comply with the ... insurance policy.”
• 52-month delay unreasonable as a matter of law and not justified by insured’s illiteracy
• “[0]ne who signs a contract is presumed to know its contents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).