Augusta Motor Sales Co. v. King

1. Where the execution of a contract is procured by duress, the person executing it may, after removal of the duress,' waive the duress'and ratify the contract. 9 R. C. L. 725, § 15; 13 C. J. 625, § 688; 35 A. L. R. 866 (note).

2. An admission of liability under the contract, made to the opposite party by a party who executed it under duress, after removal of the duress, amounts to a ratification of the contract and a waiver of the duress.

3. In a suit upon a promissory note, where the defendant pleaded that he executed the note as surety for his son under a threat of criminal prosecution of…