Metropolitan Lumber Co. v. Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway & Iron Co.

Complainant’s bill is filed to correct a contract for the purchase of timber, by adding to it the description of certain lands which is claimed to have been omitted by mistake. The negotiations took place in Chicago, between the presidents of the corporations, complainant and defendant. The contract conveying the timber was subsequently prepared by defendant’s counsel in Michigan, and was afterwards signed by the respective parties. Upon discovering the omission, which discovery was made some time after the contract was signed by complainant’s president, defendant was asked to correct the…