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4 Hoe v. Sanborn, 21 N. Y. 552, 78 Am. Dec. 163; French v. Vining, 102 Mass. 132, 3 Am. Rep. 440; Marsh v. Webber, 13 Minn. 109 (Gil. 99); Cecil v. Spurger, 32 Mo. 462, 82 Am. Dec. 140; Patterson v. Kirkland, 34 Miss. 423; Johnson v. Wallower, 18 Minn. 288 (Gil. 262); Cardwell v. McClelland, 3 Sneed (Tenn.) 150; Waters v. Mattingley, 1 Bibb (Ky.) 244, 4 Am. Dec. 631; Maynard v. Maynard, 49 Vt 297; Paddock v. Strobridge, 29 Vt. 470; Graham v. Stiles, 38 Vt. 578; Dowling v. Lawrence, 58 Wis. 282, 16 N. W. 552. Sale of cattle known to be infected with contagious disease: Jeffrey v. Bige-low, 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 518, 28 Am. Dec. 476; GRIGSBY v. STAPLETON, 94 Mo. 423, 7 S. W. 421, Throckmorton, Cas. Contracts, 187. The rule does not apply if the sale is "with all faults." West v. Anderson, 9 Conn. 107, 21 Am. Dec. 737; Whitney v. Boardman, 118 Mass. 242. Otherwise if seller makes efforts to prevent buyer from discovering defects. West v. Anderson, supra; note 98, supra. See "Sales," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 4l; Cent. Dig. § 84.
6 Scott v. Littledale, 8 El. & Bl. 815; People's Bank v. Bogart, 81 N. Y. 101. 37 Am. Rep. 481; Laidlaw v. Organ, 2 Wheat. 178, 4 L. Ed. 214; Borden v. Railroad Co., 113 N. C. 570, 18 S. E. 392, 37 Am. St. Rep. 632; Griffin v. O'Neil, 48 Kan. 117, 29 Pac. 143; Seeley v. Traction Co., 179 Pa. 334, 36 Atl. 229; Brown v. Levy, 29 Tex. Civ. App. 389, 69 S. W. 255. -See "Contracts," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 93; Cent. Dig. §§ 415-J,19.
7Anson, Cont. (8th Ed.) 138.
This subject is treated by Sir William Anson and many other writers under mistake, but most of the courts of this country treat it as a question of fraud. The latter classification would seem the more appropriate, since the effect of a mistake of the character under consideration is merely to render the contract voidable,, and not void.
8 Smith v. Hughes, L. R. 6 Q. B. 597; Thayer v. Knote, 59 Kan. 181, 52 Pac. 433. Sir William Anson says "void." Anson, Conk (8th Ed.) 138. See "Sales," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 36; Cent. Dig. §§ 63, 6k.
9 Smith v. Hughes, supra. See "Contracts;' Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 93; Cent. Dig. §§ 415-419.
10 Harran v. Foley, 62 Wis. 584, 22 N. W. 837. See, also, Webster v. Cecil, 30 Beav. 62; Tamplin v. Jones, 15 Ch. D. 221; Gerrard v. Frankel, 30 Beav. 445; Everson v. Granite Co., 65 Vt. 658, 27 Atl. 320. See "Contracts," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 93; Cent. Dig. §§ 415-419.
11 Shelton v. Ellis, 70 Ga. 297. A contract to furnish the government with many articles at stipulated prices, among them shucks at 60 cents per pound, was unenforceable as to the shucks, whore the government showed that they were worth from $12 to $35 per ton; that it was customary to buy them by the hundred weight; and that the seller failed to strike out the word "pounds" on the printed form of proposal, and to insert "hundred weight" instead, though the seller insisted that there was no mistake on his part, Hume v. United States, 132 U. S. 406, 10 Sup. Ct. 134, 33 L. Ed. 393. See, also, Mof-fett, Hodgkins & Clarke Co. v. City of Rochester, 178 U. S. 373, 20 Sup. Ct. 957, 44 L. Ed. 1108. See "Contracts," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 93; Cent. Dig. §§ 415-419.

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