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Trenwick America Reinsurance Corporation v. W.R. Berkley Corporation

Connecticut Appellate Court

October 29, 2012

The 1925 Connecticut Supreme Court in Rockwell v. New Departure Manufacturing Company held that "when the parties to a written contract stand on an equal footing as to means of knowledge of their contract obligations, money paid by one to the other, in part performance of the contract, in response to a claim made in good faith and based upon a permissible but erroneous construction of the contract, cannot be recovered back as money paid under a mistake of law."

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