Collins v. Burke

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• mentioning the clear and convincing evidentiary requirement in conjunction with the \second requirement\ of \what actually was the prior oral agreement between parties\
• “Reformation is not a mandate to produce a reasonable result . . . . Rather, it is based on intention.”
• “Reformation is not a mandate to produce a reasonable result . . . . Rather, it is based on intention.”
• “[I]n the absence of any showing that appellants suffered a detrimental change of position as a result of the delay, the [reformation] action will not be barred by laches.”
• “The Courts of this State have always insisted in reformation cases on a showing of mutual mistake, or, in appropriate cases, unilateral mistake on plaintiff’s part coupled with knowing silence on defendant’s part.”
• reformation granted based on “mistake” in original deed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).