Belk v. Martin

WALTERS, Justice.

This is an appeal following a trial without a jury where the district court determined a farm lease contained a unilateral mistake regarding the rental amount. As a result, the district court reformed the lease to provide that the dollar amount of the lease should be $14,768.00 rather than $1,476.80. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Howard and Lois Belk owned farmland located in Canyon County, Idaho. The farm consisted of seven fields totaling 113.6 acres, which had been rented to various tenants for many years. In October of 1995, William Ekberg, brother of Lois…