REILLEY v. RICHARDS

No. 92-2346.

69 Ohio St.3d 352 (1994)

REILLEY, APPELLEE, v. RICHARDS, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett Jaffe and Jeffrey D. Fish, for appellee.

Chester, Hoffman, Wilcox & Saxbe and John J. Chester, Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt, John P. Kennedy and Jill T. Fleishman, for appellant.


FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.

The issue presented to this court is whether rescission of a real estate purchase contract is proper when there was a mutual mistake as to the character of the real estate that was material to the contract and where the complaining party was not negligent in failing to discover the mistake. For the following reasons, we answer "yes" and, accordingly, reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

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