Industrial Loan & Investment Bank v. Dardine

The assignments of error present but the single question : Did the court err in charging the jury as indicated ?

The defense that she did not know the contents of the instrument at the time she signed it cannot avail the defendant in the face of her own testimony that “I can read. . . . He (her husband and codefend-ant) asked me, Hear, please sign that for me,’ and I did it.” It was the defendant’s duty to have read, or to have had read to her, the contract, or note, and her failure to do so, in the absence of fraud, is negligence for which the law affords no redress. Colt Company v. Kimball,…