Gardner v. Meiling

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting an alleged unilateral mistake 8 because there was no evidence that the defendants were aware of 9 such mistake, or that a reasonable person would have known of 10 the mistake
• “Implicit in the element of reliance is a requirement [that] the plaintiff prove a causal relationship between the representation and his entry into the bargain.”
• \Implicit in the element of reliance is a requirement [that] the plaintiff prove a causal relationship between the representation and his entry into the bargain.\
• “A mistake justifying rescission must be a misapprehension as to a fact which is material and basic to the agreement.”
• a person alleging fraud as a basis to avoid a contract has the burden of proving each element of fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).