Levy v. Miles F. Bixler Co.

Broyles, P. J.. 1. “One who signs an instrument written by the opposite party at interest therein, without reading it, when he is capable of doing so, can not afterwards set up fraud in the procurement of his signature thereto, when no trick or artifice was resorted to for the purpose of inducing him to thus sign it, and it was not signed under any emergency requiring haste in its execution.” Rounsaville v. Leonard Mfg. Co., 127 Ga. 735 (2) (56 S. E. 1030) ; Sloan v. Farmers & Merchants Bank, 20 Ga. App. 123 (92 S. E. 893). Under this ruling the court did not err in striking that paragraph of…