This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
Where by mistake an estate which by agreement should have passed to A alone is conveyed to A and B,1 or one which should have passed to A and B is conveyed to A alone,2 or where property was to be settled on a married woman to her separate use, and by mistake is so conveyed as to be part of her general property,3 reformation may be had. So if the name of the grantee corporation is erroneously stated reformation may be had.4
5 Epperson v. Epperson, 161 Mo. 577; 61 S. W. 853; McConnick, etc., Co. v. Woulph, 11 S. D. 252; 76 N. W. 939.
6 Skerrett v. Society, 41 0. S. 606; Avery v. Hunton, 23 Tex. Civ. App. 353; 56 S. W. 210.
Busey v. Moraga, 130 Cal. 586; 62 Pac. 1081.
8 Kelly v. Galbraith, 186 111. 593; 58 N. E. 431; affirming 87 111. App. 63.
9Moye v. Lane (Ky.), 12 S. W. 154; Eberle v. Heaton, 124 Mich. 205; 82 N. W. 820.
10Manogue v. Bryant, 15 App. D. C. 245.
11 Blakeman v. Blakeman, 39 Conn. 320; Schautz v. Keener, 87 Ind. 258; Howard v. Britton, 67 N. H. 484; 41 Atl. 269.
12 State v. Lorenz, 22 Wash. 289; 60 Pac. 644.
13 Smith v. Wakeman, 114 Mich. 611; 72 N. W. 599; Fero v. Lumber
Co., 101 Mich. 310; 59 N. W. 603.
14Cook v. Liston, 192 Pa. St. 19; 43 Atl. 389.
15 Warrick v. Smith, 137 111. 504; 27 N. E. 709; Hendrickson v. Ivins, 1 N. J. Eq. 562.
16 Stockbridge Iron Co. v. Iron Co., 107 Mass. 290.
17 Kane v. Williams, 99 Wis. 65; 74 N. W. 570.
1 Stedwell v. Anderson, 21 Conn. 139; McLeod v. Free, 96 Mich. 57; 55 N. W. 685.
2 Corrigan v. Tierney, 100 Mo. 276; 13 S. W. 401. So where notes and stock to be transferred to A and B are transferred to B alone. Kropp v. Kropp, 97 Wis. 137; 72 N. W. 381.
3Larkins v. Biddle, 21 Ala. 252; Stone v. Hill, 17 Ala. 557; 52 Am. Dec. 185.
4Rosser v. Ry., 102 Ga. 164; 29 S. E. 171.
 
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