PIRKLE v. GURR

21788.

218 Ga. 424 (1962)

128 S.E.2d 490

PIRKLE et al. v. GURR.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 1, 1962.

Rehearing Denied October 22, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsay, Simons & Hayes, Stewart, Sartain & Cary, for plaintiffs in error.

Irwin, Anderson, Smith & Bird, Franklin B. Anderson, contra.


MOBLEY, Justice.

Does a petition for cancellation alleging fraud in the procurement fail to state a cause of action because it shows that plaintiff, a blind person, failed to have someone read the instrument to her before she signed it?

"There are numerous decisions of this court to the effect that one signing an instrument without reading it is bound by its terms, unless it appears that he could not read and was for this reason imposed upon, or that the signing...

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