Retail Clerks Health & Welfare Trust Funds v. Shopland Supermarket, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party's signature on the contract is objective evidence of the party's intent to be bound by the contract
• holding that a party’s 6 signature on the contract is objective evidence of the party’s intent to be bound by the 7 contract
• noting that, under the normal rules of contract interpretation, extraneous evidence is admissible to show that the “mutual intention of the parties was not to enter into an enforceable contract, and that a writing was never operative” as a contract
• “The mere fact that a contract is entered into under stress or pecuniary necessity is insufficient.”
• a voluntary signature on a contract establishes an objective manifestation of the intent to be bound
• “A party to a contract which [s]he has voluntarily signed cannot, in the absence of fraud, deceit, or coercion be heard to repudiate h[er] own signature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).