Rentenbach Engineering Co., Construction Division v. General Realty Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the parol evidence rule does not bar proof of testimony extraneous to the written contract when offered in a lawsuit to reform the contract on the ground of mutual mistake
• “[I]f mere negligence precludes relief, very few if any instruments could be reformed on the ground of mutual mistake, because if a party uses due care in reading an instrument he would never sign one which did not contain the parties’ agreement.”
• collecting cases from other jurisdictions

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