Brinkerhoff Land & Livestock Co. v. Doyle

HOLSTEIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Brinkerhoff Land & Livestock Co. (Brinkerhoff), through its corporate officers, Mr. Arthur Brinkerhoff and Mrs. Mildred Jeanette Brinkerhoff, filed an action seeking reformation of deeds relating to several conveyances of the same piece of land. The trial court found that Brinker-hoff “failed to prove the terms of the prior agreement to convey the land and that there was a mutual mistake of fact regarding those terms in preparation of the deed” and entered judgment for defendants. Brinkerhoff appeals.

Brinkerhoff raises three points on appeal. First, the…