Brohammer v. Hoss

This is a suit in equity, the object of which is to reform a written lease so as to insert therein a covenant on the part of the defendant, the lessee, to pay the taxes assessed against the property during the term. The court-entered a decree for the defendant.

We need not go into the learning upon the subject of reforming contracts in equity on the ground of mutual mistake. It is sufficient for the purposes of the ease' to say that it is a well understood rule that written contracts which parties have made and signed, cannot be reformed at the suit of one of them on the ground of mutual…