20 Ga. App. 766 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1917
. 1. “One who signs an instrument written by the opposite party at interest therein, without reading it, when he is capable of doing so, can not afterwards set up fraud in the procurement of his signature thereto, when no trick or artifice was resorted to for the purpose of inducing him to thus sign it, and it was not signed under any emergency requiring haste in its execution.” Rounsaville v. Leonard Mfg. Co., 127 Ga. 735 (2) (56 S. E. 1030) ; Sloan v. Farmers & Merchants Bank, 20 Ga. App. 123 (92 S. E. 893). Under this ruling the court did not err in striking that paragraph of the defendant’s answer which set up fraud in the procurement of the contract.
2. Paragraph 5 of the defendant’s plea was as follows: “For further plea defendant says that the order in question was given on the 5th day of February, 1916; that immediately thereafter, on February 9th, 1916, defendant mailed to plaintiffs a letter in which he countermanded the
3. The error in' striking paragraph 5 of the answer rendered the further proceedings in the case nugatory.
Judgment reversed.