Fleet National Bank v. 175 Post Road, LLC.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTELL, Justice.
Is it an instance of a mutual mistake between two sophisticated parties to a real estate contract when one of the parties realizes that it misunderstood the terms of the bargain despite having two opportunities to clarify any misunderstandings in the written contract? In this appeal from a Superior Court judgment in response to a petition for instructions by a receiver regarding the rights and obligations of parties to a purchase and sale agreement, we conclude that the misunderstanding was the result of neither mutual mistake nor misrepresentation. Accordingly, we…
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