Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in West Virginia

Re: Purchasing

Well, you are thinking, "finders keepers". There is not enough detail to evaluate the situation. I could not offer legal advise to you about this without all of the detail. Generally speaking, if a person makes an offer, even if he has made a unilateral mistake about the price he wants to offer, and the other side takes the offer and performs, the seller is stuck.

On the other hand, if there is a mutual mistake about some important fact, either side could rescind the deal. So the first analysis if a factual one. What was the intent of the parties. Courts will attempt to give deference to the deal as comtemplated and agreed upon. I have seen similiar situations go both ways. You can never go wrong doing the right thing.

If you made the deal, the courts will seek to hold you to your committment, keeping in mind the relative fairness to both parties. That is, to put the parties in the same or similiar position as if the screw-up had not occurred. I have only discussed common law equitable principles. There could be a specific trade or consumer statute which is definitive on the issue.

There may also be specific case law in you jurisdiction that leans one your way or against you. Good Luck