Covich v. Chambers

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Massachusetts cases on mutual mistake are “substantially in accord” with the Restatement (Second) of Contracts
• plaintiff-buyer bore the risk of mistake regarding water drainage on the subject land because he dropped his initial demand that the seller perform percolation tests and then did not perform the tests himself
• upholding “the stricter test of clear and convincing proof’
• applying the prior version of Mass.R.Civ.P. 53
• plaintiffs mistake was entirely unilateral

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