Cogshall v. Jones

Citations

• 107 Wash. 140
• 180 P. 898
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 725

Syllabus

<p>Reformation of Instruments (4)—Grounds—Mistake. Where, in an exchange of properties, plaintiff’s deed, by inadvertence and mistake, included property that did not belong to her, she is entitled to have the deed reformed.</p> <p>Principal and Agent (15,17)—Mutual Rights—Profits Made by Agent—Fraud—Evidence—Sufficiency. Where a trade of lands was made by a woman with one who had acted as her local rental agent, the agent having purchased a tract for $875 for the purpose of trading it to her at a valuation of $4,000, the agent is not liable to account to her for his profits on the ground that he had violated a confidence reposed in him, where it appears that each party was in business for profit, and the agent was not trusted, but the principal acted upon the advice of her own investigator and did not at the trial question the agent’s valuation of the land she had received.</p>