Pacific State Bank v. Greene

Opinion

KOLKEY, J.

This case raises the question whether the parol evidence rule bars a party from offering evidence that her signature on an agreement was procured by a misrepresentation over the content of the physical document to be signed. The aggrieved party claims that she agreed to guarantee a single loan and that a bank employee misrepresented on the day of signing that the guaranty agreements at issue related only to that single loan. But although that single loan’s number and amount were specified at the top of the guaranty agreements, the agreements’ fine print defined the…