McCullough v. Kirby

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Headnotes 1, 2, 3 and 4 require no elaboration.

It is settled law in this State that “a party to a contract who can read must read, or show a legal excuse for not doing so, and that fraud which will relieve a party who can read must be such as prevents him from reading.” Lewis v. Foy, 189 Ga. 596 (6 S. E. 2d, 788). The decisions which declare this rule are too numerous for citation here. To abrogate that rule would destroy the very foundation of business intercourse, and would render written contracts solemnly executed vulnerable to…