Skagit State Bank v. Rasmussen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a partner could not rely on his non-attorney partner’s legal interpretation of the effect of various instruments
• “[A] party whose rights rest upon a written instrument which is plain and unambiguous ... cannot claim to have been misled concerning its contents.”
• a party to a negotiation has no duty to investigate and can rely upon an assertion “where representations were made as to facts peculiarly within the speaker’s knowledge”
• “A party generally cannot escape the duty of reading the documents ... in the absence of a showing that. . . there was a special relation of trust and confidence in the representing party . . . .”
• explaining when an affirmative misrepresentation of fact can allow avoidance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).