New v. Wambach

The appellees instituted their action against the appellants, for the purpose of reforming a contract, and for the recovery of one thousand dollars.

The complaint contains two paragraphs; they both set up the same contract, alleging that one of the appellees was a foreigner with a very limited knowledge of our language, that the other was an ignorant and illiterate man, and unable to read or write; that New, one of the appellants, wrote the contract and read it as agreed upon by the parties; that they executed it, or caused it to be executed, under the belief that it was written as agreed…