Kovacs v. Hoag

It is elementary in Wisconsin that agreements may be reformed in a suit in equity where the true intent of the parties is not embodied in the agreement as reduced to writing because of some mutual mistake. La Rosa v. Hess, 258 Wis. 557, 46 N. W. (2d) 737; Longer v. Stegerwald Lumber Co. 262 Wis. 383, 55 N. W. (2d) 389; Lentz v. Dostal, 212 Wis. 81, 249 N. W. 174; Shearer v. Pringle, 203 Wis. 164, 233 N. W. 623.

Robert W. Hoag testified that he drafted the exchange agreement in the absence of the Kovacs but that it was the intention that the owners of the one property were to become the owners…