Jacobs v. Parodi
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from Circuit Court for Santa Rosa County. STATEMENT. The appellees filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Santa Rosa County for the reformation of an instrument in writing and for an injunction to restrain the defendant from prosecuting a suit at law for damages under said instrument in writing.
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This case was decided by Division A. Appeal from Circuit Court for Santa Rosa County. STATEMENT. The appellees filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Santa Rosa County for the reformation of an instrument in writing and for an injunction to restrain the defendant from prosecuting a suit at law for damages under said instrument in writing. The instrument sought to be reformed is a deed of conveyance made by G. Parodi and wife to J. H. Dickerson covering about twenty-two hundred acres of land in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The deed also contains the following provisions: “The parties of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, J.,
(after stating the facts.) It is contended that the demurrer to the bill of complaint should have been sustained because, it is said, the allegations in effect simply mean, “That complainants being aware of the contents of the instrument they signed believed that the legal effect of the stipulation iu question was as they say they intended in the preliminaries leading up to it— that the deed should be reformed because they misunderstood the legal effect of a provision in it.”
Where an instrument is drawn and executed which professes or is intended to carry into execution an…
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