Darrell goes to lunch with an office equipment salesman.After drinking two beers and eating a Reuben sandwich,Darrell signs a contract to purchase a $1200 machine for the office.Two hours later,he has second thoughts and decides a different machine might be a better buy,so he calls the salesman and wants to disaffirm the contract based upon intoxication.Darrell can avoid the contract on this basis.

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Intoxication is generally not a valid defense for disaffirming a contract. Darrell would need to prove that he was so intoxicated that he did not have the mental capacity to understand the terms of the contract at the time he signed it. Simply drinking two beers and eating a sandwich is unlikely to rise to this level of intoxication.

Darrell Goes to Lunch with an Office Equipment Salesman