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· 3/26/1957

United States v. F. C. Hathaway

Citations

  • 242 F.2d 897
  • 1957 U.S. App. LEXIS 4634

How courts have described this case

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  • “mutual mistake renders a sales contract voidable only if the parties have not 10 agreed among themselves that the risk of such mistake shall be assumed by” one of the 11 parties
  • “Mutual mistake renders a sales contract voidable only if the parties have not agreed among themselves that the risk of such mistake shall be assumed by the purchaser .... A party to a contract may assume the risk of every chance occur-renee.”

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Judges: Healy, Chambers, Barnes

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