Butler v. Barnes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the reformation of a deed and for damages; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Hartford County, and beard before Bennett, J. The court made the following finding of facts.
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Suit for the reformation of a deed and for damages; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Hartford County, and beard before Bennett, J. The court made the following finding of facts. On August 15th, 1872, Wallace Barnes, the defendant, sold to Charles H. Riggs a piece of land fronting on North Main street, in Bristol, which he described and bounded in the deed as follows: — “ Northerly on land of the heirs of Mrs. Ann O’Connor, one hundred feet; easterly on highway called North Main street, thirty-three feet; southerly on grantor, one hundred and sixteen feet and ten inches; westerly on…
1Opinion of the Court
Seímoue, J.
In this case the appellee claims at the outset, and as conclusive of the question before us, that the court below has decided, as a question of fact, that no mistake occurred between the parties to the original deed which the plaintiff seeks to have reformed, but that it accurately expresses the contract which was made and correctly describes the land which was sold.
Is this claim well founded? The finding states that in 1872 the defendant sold to one Riggs a piece of land which he described and bounded in the deed as follows: — “ Northerly on land of the heirs of Mrs. Ann O’Connor,…
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