Regions Bank v. Schmauch

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a fiduciary relationship requires that “[t]he other party must have actually accepted or induced the confidence placed in him”
• holding a lender did not owe a borrower a duty of care \in the regular course of its business\
• recognizing the well-settled proposition that a party is charged with learning the contents of a document before he signs it
• holding, in the context of a fraud claim, that the plaintiff could not justifiably rely on alleged misrepresentations that were contradicted by the parties’ contracting documents
• stating that “[a] person who signs a contract or other written document cannot avoid the effect of the document by claiming he did not read it” and that “[a] person signing a document is responsible for reading the document and making sure of its contents”
• stating the duty to disclose may arise from (1) a preexisting fiduciary relationship; (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).