Thompson v. Bracken

BOND, Justice.

This suit was instituted by I. W. Thompson, plaintiff, in the district court of Van Zandt county, Tex., against J. A. Bracken et al., defendants, to have the description reformed in a deed which, in 1906, had been executed and delivered to him by E. B. Tunnell so that such description would include a S-acre strip of land subsequently deeded to. the defendants.

The issue involved is succinctly stated in plaintiff’s petition:

E. B. Tunnell was the owner of 137 acres of land in Van Zandt county, Tex., and, in 1906, sold to plaintiff 51 acres out of the southeast corner and south óf a…