DeVincent Ford Sales, Inc. v. First Mass. Corp.

This is a bill to obtain reformation and cancellation of a lease, from the defendant to the plaintiff, of a piece of vacant land in Cambridge for three years from September 1, 1955. Paragraphs 6 and 7 of the bill read in part as follows: “6. The plaintiff signed . . . upon the specific representation and agreement that the . . . land was to be used as a place ... to sell automobiles and that if a license to sell automobiles was not obtained then the lease was to be . . . void and all sums paid ... to the defendant under said lease would be returned .... 7. By inadvertence of the parties . . .…