Pacific Western Construction Co. v. Industrial Commission

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• stating a claimant may seek to set aside a settlement agreement by proving “duress, mental incompetency, fraud, misrepresentations or mutual mistake of fact”
• “Failure to read an agreement reduced to writing and signed by a party precludes recovery for fraud or misrepresentation concerning oral statements made about the contents of the agreement.”
• once the parties entered a settlement agreement, the ability of a party to set it aside was “limited to his ability to prove duress, mental incompetency, fraud, misrepresentations or mutual mistake of fact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).