Mathers's Appeal

How courts have described this case

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

• finding release of all claims when release terms were “plain and distinct” and “disposed of all causes of action”
• “enforcement of a legal right by legal means is not evidence of duress”
• “[T]o set aside an agreement because of duress, the will of the party subjected to it must be overcome, and the means made use of must be such as to overcome the mind of an ordinary person.”
• “To enable a party to rescind a contract because of fraud or misrepresentation, the fraud or misrepresentation relied on must have operated to cause him to make the contract or have been intended to influence the action in the particular complained of.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).