Lewis v. Lewis

By the Court,

Shattuck, J.:

This suit was instituted in the court below by the appellants against the respondents, to correct an alleged mistake in a deed, and to enjoin an action at law for the recovery of possession of a portion of the land described in the deed;

*170The complaint alleges in substance that the plaintiffs, being owners of a certain donation land claim in Polk County (a description of which is set forth in the complaint), some time in the fall of 1855 entered into a verbal agreement with one Ira A. Hooker, whereby Hooker agreed to purchase a piece of land of the plaintiffs, situate…