Cox v. Ellsworth
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from Hamilton county. Tried below before Norval, J. Burr v. Sim, 4 Wharton, 150. Eagle’s Case, 3 Abbott, 218. Proctor v. McCall, 23 Amer. Decisions, 135. Holmes v. Johnson, 42 Pa. State, 164. Miller v. Beates, 8 Amer.
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Appeal from Hamilton county. Tried below before Norval, J. Burr v. Sim, 4 Wharton, 150. Eagle’s Case, 3 Abbott, 218. Proctor v. McCall, 23 Amer. Decisions, 135. Holmes v. Johnson, 42 Pa. State, 164. Miller v. Beates, 8 Amer. Decisions, 658. Abbott’s Trial Evidence, 74. Jamison v. Smith, 17 Rep., 300. John Hancock v. Moore, 34 Mich., 41. Best Evidence (Morgan’s Ed.), § 409. Tisdale v. Insurance Co., 26 Iowa, 170. Byan v. Tudor, 31 Kan., 366. Hancock v. Insurance Co., 62 Mo., 29.
1Opinion of the Court
Cobb, Ch. J.
This is an action in equity brought in the district court of Hamilton county, by Joshua Cox, plaintiff, against *665Francis M. Ellsworth and wife, defendants, to reform an <error or mistake in a deed of real estate executed by said defendants to one Mitchel Clement, under whom the plaintiff claims. The alleged error or mistake consisted in a misdescription of the land intended to be described in and conveyed by the deed. The defendants answering denied that there was a mistake or error in the deed, and denied the death of Mitchel Clement, their grantee. The deed under which the…
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