Washington Mutual Savings Bank v. Hedreen

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• stating that “mere carelessness, however, is not necessarily a defense to an action for reformation” and that “[i]f negligence were a defense to a reformation claim, then reformation would almost nev er be available as a remedy because ... negligence generally results from mistake”
• stating that “mere carelessness, however, is not neces- sarily a defense to an action for reformation” and that “[i]f negligence were a defense to a reformation claim, then refor- mation would almost never be available as a remedy because . . . negligence generally results from mistake”
• unilateral mistake may support contract reformation if other party engaged in fraud or inequitable conduct
• unilateral mistake may support contract reformation if other party engaged in fraud or inequitable conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).