Adair v. Hightower

THOMPSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment granting reformation of a deed given by Jacobs to the Hightowers. We reverse.

Marjorie Jacobs was the owner of approximately 300 acres of land in Jefferson County known as Hilltop Acres. In 1982 the Hightowers contacted her husband and expressed an interest in purchasing a 25 acre parcel. In response her husband, Dr. Jacobs, sent the Hightowers an aerial photograph of Hilltop Acres showing it divided into nine 20-25 acre parcels. Parcel 10, an approximately 75 acre parcel, was already sold. The Hightowers understood that the aerial…