Koonce v. Board of Sup'rs

This suit was brought by the appellant J.L. Koonce to reform a deed which he had obtained from the appellee Board of Supervisors for the timber on a sixteenth section of land, commonly known as "school land." The deed purports to convey all of the timber on Section 16, Township 23, Range 7 East, in Grenada County, less that on the SW 1/4 thereof. It is conceded that it was the mutual intention of both the grantor and the grantee that the land should have been described as being in Range 6 East instead of Range 7 East.

After cutting and removing considerable timber from the land in Range 6…