Matter of DeWolf v. Wayne County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a misrepresentation is material when it is one of the principal grounds that caused the plaintiff to enter the contract
• explaining that the mistake must “upset the very basis for the contract” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[I]n cases of fraudulent inducement, relief is not barred by an integration clause, even where the parties are sophisticated and their bargaining powers are equal.”
• “Compliance with a notice provision is not required where it would amount to a ‘useless gesture’” [citation omitted].

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).