Duckett v. Lipscomb

LAWSON, Justice.

The. appeal is by the complainants below from a final decree wherein the trial court refused to reform the description in a deed.

Reformation was sought on the ground that the property described in .the deed in question “is not the property ■ intended to be conveyed by said deed, * *, * as a result of and through, the mutual mistake of all parties hereto.” The grantee in .the deed was the respondent in the trial court and is the appellee here.

' [1] One of the established grounds of equitable jurisdiction is the power to reform a written instrument so as to make it conform to…