Under cover of construction a court cannot reform a written contract to make it express the real intention of the parties, which by mistake is not expressed in the words thereof.1 Thus a clause fixing a price per car, "excepting only empty freight cars and such loaded freight cars as are destined to or originate at points outside the city, on or beyond the first party's line," cannot be restricted to such empty cars as originate outside the city, but applies to all empty cars.2

11 Boykin v. Bank, 72 Ala. 262;

47 Am. Rep. 408; Martin v. Dowd, - Ida. - ; 69 Pac. 276; Alworth v. Gordon, 81 Minn. 445; 84 N. W. 454; Coquillard v. Hovey, 23 Neb. 622; 8 Am. St. Rep. 134; 37 N. W. 479; Blaisdell v. Davis, 72 Vt. 295;

48 Atl. 14.

12 Durand v. Heney, 33 Wash. 38; 73 Pac. 775.

13 Schneider Granite Co. v. Milling Co., 78 Mo. App. 622.

14 Wilcox v. Baer, 85 Mo. App. 587.

15 Jensen v. Perry, 126 Pa. St. 495; 12 Am. St. Rep. 888; 17 Atl. 665.

16 Cook v. Littlefield. 98 Me. 299; 56 Atl. 899.

17 City of Philadelphia v. Stewart, 201 Pa. St. 526; 51 Atl. 348.

1 Robbins v. Rollins, 127 U. S. 622; Te Poel v. Shutt, 57 Neb. 592; 78 N. W. 288; Sinclair v. Hicks, 116 N. C. 606; 21 S. E. 395.

2 Louisville, etc., Ry. v. Ry., 100 Ky. 690; 39 S. W. 42.