Snell v. Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining the common law standard of clear and convincing evidence necessary to reform a contract
• “[A] mere mistake of law, stripped of all other circumstances, constitutes no ground for the reformation of written contracts.”
• insurance contract applied to only a portion of the cotton for which coverage was sought when the contract mistakenly covered only an individual's interest in the cotton, rather than that of the entire company

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).