Christensen v. Harris

I. The majority rightly declares that the law question is, What effect should be given tq the fact that defendant did not read what she signed? I differ from its conclusion that this failure is of no consequence.

In Bannister v. McIntire, 112 Iowa 600, at 604, we quote with approval from Bonnot Co. v. Newman Bros., 108 Iowa 158:

“While persons, on the faith of another’s word alone, every day sign contracts without reading them, the law has ever adjudged this such indifference as will preclude a remedy in event of deception.”

And we held, in McCormack v. Molburg, 43 Iowa 561, at 562, that such…