Binkholder v. Carpenter

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the remedy for a mutual mistake of fact is not limited to reformation of the contract or damages, but may include rescission, although the court did not decide that an action for damages was available
• finding that the remedy for a mutual mistake of fact is not limited to reformation of the contract or damages, but may include rescission, although the court did not decide that an action for damages was available
• distinguishing rescission decreed by a court of equity from recission effected by notice given by one contracting party to the other
• forfeiture did not bar prior rescission
• forfeiture did not bar prior rescission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).