Sovereign Camp Woodmen of World v. Heflin

Jenkins, Justice.

1. While it is the general rule of law that knowledge of a fact is a necessary ingredient in the application of the doctrine of waiver or estoppel, and consequently a person is not ordinarily estopped by virtue of the existence of a fact of which he has no actual or constructive knowledge (United Benevolent Society v. Freeman, 111 Ga. 355 (3), 359, 36 S. E. 764; German American Mutual Life Association v. Farley, 102 Ga. 720 (3), 742, 29 S. E. 615), there is nothing which would ordinarily prevent parties from contracting with respect to this rule of law, so as to prevent lack…