Miles v. Shreve

In this suit complainant sought a decree compelling rescission and cancellation or reformation of a certain “contract or lease” between herself and defendant on the following grounds, as stated in her counsel’s brief:

*673“First, the scrivener and parties hereto, one or all, having made a mistake; and, second, that, after the mistake was discovered, the defendant agreed with complainant to rectify the mistake, and agreed to the drawing of a new lease, with a different rental than that contained in the original paper in suit, which, I submit, it is manifest was drawn as the contract for a lease,…