Maw v. McAlister

How courts have described this case

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• court refused to rescind release based on insurance adjuster’s misrepresentations when party, an experienced businessman, did not exercise due care and read release prior to signing, but instead relied on the adjuster who was a stranger representing an adverse interest
• the duty on the part of one who signs a written instrument to exercise reasonable care to protect themselves requires that they read the contract which they sign and if they cannot read, that they get someone to read it for them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).