34 N.C. App. 367 - Ellis v. Mullen’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited
1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on W. R. Grace & Co. v. Strickland · 20 N.C. App. 204 - Hinson v. Jefferson · 4 N.C. App. 606 - Sexton v. Lilley
Most-quoted passages
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“It is the general rule that one who signs a contract is presumed to know its contents, and an illiterate person signing an instrument without request that it be read to him is chargeable with negligence for which the law affords no redress, unless he has been lulled into security or thrown off his guard and deceived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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