Biscoe v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"The plaintiff knew of this release having been executed and the money received prior to filing the complaint in this cause. If for some reason, the release was improperly or illegally obtained through fraud or error, it was incumbent upon the plaintiff to assert such avoidance in his complaint. After the answer was filed, setting up the defense of the release, and attaching a copy thereof, and the further showing of the release by attaching it to the motion for summary judgment, certainly the plaintiff should have come forth with some justifiable explanation of avoidance of the release if any existed. On the face of the record and the affidavit attached to the motion for summary judgment, the trial court was well within its judicial discretion in determining the cause in favor of the defendants as it did. * * *" (at page 565)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 294 So. 2d 398 - Hughes v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INS. CO.