Pierce v. Estate of Haverlah

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• bringing a mob to plaintiff's home at night and threatening to lynch him unless he left town
• in order to establish duress, a plaintiff must demonstrate some act of coercion, whether mental, physical, or otherwise, which caused her to act contrary to her own free will or to submit to a situation or a condition against her own volition or interest

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