Aja v. Appleton

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

Aldace E. and Juanita M. Appleton commenced this action in the district court to reform a deed to real property that they had conveyed to Augustine A. and Judith A. Aja, so that the deed would properly describe the property that the Appletons had agreed to sell and the Ajas had agreed to buy. The record is crystal clear, and all parties concede, that the description of the property in the deed was erroneous in that it included an additional l!i-acre parcel of noncontiguous real property owned by the Appletons but which was not included in the Appleton-Aja sale.…