Cochran v. Murrah

Hill, Justice.

In this appeal upon certificate from the denial of the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the sole issue concerns cancellation, upon equitable grounds, of a release signed by the plaintiff.

The plaintiff had been employed by defendant William O. Cochran for over eight years as a farm laborer. He was paid seventy dollars a week and lived in a house furnished by his employer. Some weeks he was paid only sixty or sixty-five dollars but he does not know why and apparently has never asked. He can read, but never does.

On May 1,1973, the plaintiff was attaching a plow to a tractor…