Payson Building & Loan Soc. v. Taylor

It is not necessary in setting up duress in the form of a threatened criminal action to set out that the threatener had recited as a basis of his threat such facts which would amount technically and legally to a crime; if, on accurate and detailed analysis, it is found that the acts he was said to have done would not themselves constitute a crime, they may nevertheless be sufficient to invest the mind of the person threatened with such fear as not to make his choice of contract a free one. The modem doctrine seems to be well stated in the case of Wilbur v. Blanchard, 22 Idaho 517, 126 P.…