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180 A.D. 174

Frankenberg v. Perlman

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1917-11-23

Appeal, by the plaintiff, Abraham Frankenberg, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of April, 1917, denying his motion for judgment on the pleadings consisting of a complaint, an amended answer and the reply thereto.

Decided 1917-11-23

Page, J.:

¶1The allegations in the counterclaim that the plaintiff had agreed to repurchase the stock on defendant’s retirement from *175the business at its book or actual value, and that the plaintiff had falsely represented that as used in the written agreement the words “ face value ” meant book value or actual value, which representation was made fraudulently with intent to deceive the defendant, and that the defendant, relying on said representation and believing the same to be true, signed the agreement, present a cause of action for the reformation of the contract to express the real agreement of the parties.

¶2The representation was as to a fact, and not the expression of an opinion, knowingly and fraudulently made to induce the defendant to sign an agreement which in fact did not express their true agreement.

¶3These allegations state fraud on one side and mistake on the other, such as would move a court of equity to grant relief.

¶4The order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

¶5Laughlin and Smith, JJ., concurred; Scott and Davis, JJ., dissented.

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