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<br />0014G? <br />... <br /> <br />below, one can fairly say that Paragraph (d) was drafted as a <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />means to implement administration of the equal division. <br /> <br />2. Rescission of the Compact. <br /> <br />In West Virginia ex rel. Dver v. Sims, 341 U.S. 22, ___ <br />(19S1), Justice Frankfurter, writing for the Court, observed, <br />"a Compact is after all a legal document." See also Green <br /> <br />v. Biddle, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat) 1 (1823); Trans World Airlines. <br />Inc. v. Franklin Mint Corp., 466 U.S. 243, 253 (1984). <br /> <br />"Interstate compacts are not only statutes: they are also <br />contracts. This means that the substantive law of contracts <br /> <br />is applicable to them." F. Zimmerman & M. Wendell, The Law <br /> <br />and Use of Interstate Compacts 2 (1961). <br /> <br />Contracts may be rescinded and also reformed on the <br /> <br />( basis of a mutual mistake of fact, although each remedy <br /> <br />depends upon a somewhat different kind of mistake. <br /> <br />When a mistake of both parties at the time a <br />contract was mad~ as to a basic assumption on which <br />the contract was made has a material effect on the <br />agreed exchange of performances, the contract is <br />voidable by the adversely affected party unless he <br />bears the risk of the mistake under the rule state <br />in fi lS4 . ... <br /> <br />RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF CONTRACTS fi152. <br /> <br />"A mistake is a <br /> <br />belief which is not in accord with the facts. II RESTATEMENT <br /> <br />(SECOND) fi 151. <br /> <br />a. Mistake of Fact <br /> <br />The amount of water in the Colorado River was obviously <br />a basic assumption on which the Compact was made, and there <br /> <br />is little doubt that the states and the Federal Government <br /> <br />-37- <br />