 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1893 - 788 pages
...recent case of Renard v. Clink, 91 Mich. 1, MONTGOMERY, J., speaking for the Court, says: " But where a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his...antecedent and existing private legal rights, interests, or estates, and enters into some transaction, the legal scope and operation of which he correctly apprehends... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1917 - 724 pages
...is one of law equity sometimes interferes. (2 Pomeroy's Eq. Jur. — 3d ed. — sec. 842.) "Wherever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his...rights, interests, estates, duties, liabilities or other relations, either of property or contract or personal status, and enters into some transaction the... | |
 | 1887 - 956 pages
...case, the plaintiff's mistake is to be regarded as one of fact. Mr. Pomeroy states the rule thus: " Whenever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his own anlet'edent and existing private legal rights, interests, (»states, duties, liabilities, or other... | |
 | 1898 - 1150 pages
...upon its own facts, he ventures to formulate the following as a rule of general application: "Wherever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his own antecedent and existing private le gal rights, interests, estates, duties, liabilities, or other relations, either of property or coutraci... | |
 | 1909 - 672 pages
...said to be a " mistake of 1 State v. Whitcomb, 52 la. 85. See also Hoover v. State, 59 Ala. 57. J " Whenever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect...or other relation either of property or contract or legal status, and enters into some transaction the legal scope and operation of which he correctly... | |
 | 1898 - 1054 pages
...which he enters, in the absence of other determining incidents, is not ground for relief; but wherever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his own antecedent and existing legal rights, interests, estates, duties, liabilities, or other relations, either of property or contract... | |
 | 1904 - 1278 pages
...In Page v. Higgins, 5 LRA 155, in an elaborate note upon "Mistake of Legal Rights" the author says: "Whenever a person is Ignorant or mistaken with respect...own antecedent and existing private legal rights, either of property, or contract, or personal status, and enters into some transaction the legal scope... | |
 | 1889 - 952 pages
...existence of such mistake when their right accrued. State v. Paup, 13 Ark. 123. 56 Am. Dec. 3U6. Wherever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his own antecedent und existing private legal righto, either of property, or contract, or personal status, and enters... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - 1891 - 1358 pages
...38, 42. Compare Bentley г: Whittemore, 18 NJ Eq. 366; Peters v. Florence, 38 Pa. St. 194. "Wherever a person is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his...interests, estates, duties, liabilities, or other relations, either of property or contract or personal status, and enters into some transaction, the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1036 pages
...effect: Martin v. Hamlin, 18 Mich. 354; 100 Am. Dec. 181; Lapp v. Lapp, 43 Mich. 287. But where a perBon is ignorant or mistaken with respect to his own antecedent and existing private legal rights, interests, or estates, and entere into some transaction, the legal scope and operation of which he correctly apprehends... | |
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... and enters into some transaction, the legal scope and operation of which he correctly apprehends and understands, for the purpose of affecting such assumed rights, interests or estates... 
