La Rosa v. Hess

Reformation of an instrument cannot be made if the only grounds shown are that one party misunderstood the legal effect of the writing or because each of the parties gave his peculiar interpretation to it. But the reformation of a contract may be accomplished by a suit in équity where the evidence convinces the court that the true intent of the parties differed from the contract as reduced to writing, and that by some mistake or fraud the real intent was riot truly represented in the writing. In Kadow v. Aluminum Specialty Co. 253 Wis. 76, 78, 33 N. W. (2d) 236, it was said:

“It is argued that…