Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

Schlehofer v. United States Brewing Co.

Schlehofer v. United States Brewing Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided November 19, 1914 · Fitch
189 Ill. App. 470; 1914 Ill. App. LEXIS 385

Schlehofer v. United States Brewing Co.

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Fitch

delivered the opinion of the court.

2. Reformation of instruments, § 2*—when a lease may be reformed for mutual mistake or fraud. Where a lease with a cancellation clause was executed by the owners who understood that it was according to an agreement to let the premises in question for a certain number of years, the use of a form essentially different from the one agreed upon was held to be either the result of mutual mistake, or the lessee corporation was guilty of fraud in its procurement, so that upon either ground the owners were entitled to reformation in equity by a decree striking the cancellation clause from the lease.

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