Court Opinion

ID: 9795223
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:23:00.475036+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:28:13.932129
License: Public Domain

SUTIN, Judge (specially concurring). {48} I concur. The 1996 agreement was substituted for the earlier agreements. Richards signed it and accepted its benefits without complaint for a considerable period of time. Any concern about a failure to properly terminate one of the earlier contracts becomes irrelevant upon the determination of substitution. Further, the earlier contracts were terminated at some point anyway. Also, whether the 1996 agreement modified the earlier agreements also becomes irrelevant upon the determination of substitution. This leaves only lack of consideration and duress. On neither issue was there substantial evidence to support a finding which in turn would support a conclusion of lack of consideration or of duress.