Shaw v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Insurance

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• contract may be reformed where mutual mistake consists of the insertion of some material element affecting the subject matter of the terms inconsistent with the preceding parol agreement
• party seeking reformation on the basis of fraud must prove that it was “induced by the fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, concealment, or imposition in any form of the party opposed in interest to the reformation” (emphasis added)

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