Baxter v. Tanner

Brannon, Judge :

Appeal by F. J. Baxter from a decree of the circuit court of Clay comity dismissing a bill in equity filed by him against Jefferson Tanner, seeking to correct a mistake in a deed, which mistake consisted in the insertion in the deed of courses and distances describing another tract of land. An action of ejectment had been brought by Purviance and llazleliurst against Jefferson Tanner for the recovery of certain land, and a compromise was made, by which Tanner relinquished his adverse claim and purchased of Purviance and llazleliurst a tract of about one hundred and forty four…