The case of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v.Milhomens examined the effect of one party's insanity on a contract.What did the Court find?
A) For a contract to be voidable because of insanity, one party must be insane and the other party must have known (or ought to have known) of the insanity.
B) If a person has the mental faculties to sign a contract, that person cannot be insane.
C) If a insane person enters into a contract, that contract is automatically void.
D) Contracts are not enforceable by either party if one party can establish a mental defect.
E) The relevant test for insanity is simply whether one party believed the other to be insane, at the moment the offer was made.
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