Shook v. Puritan Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 75 Kan. 301
• 89 P. 653
• 1907 Kan. LEXIS 56

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Contracts — Signed without Reading — Execution Induced by Fraud. Where inquiry as to the contents of a written contract is lulled by fraud and deceit, and one party is induced to sign the contract by the false representations of the other that it contains the provisions agreed upon, when in fact it does not, the party who procures the signature by fraud will not be entitled to enforce such contract, although the one who signed it did so without reading it or having it read to him.</p>