Sweatman v. Dailey
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
1. Where a purchaser of land brings a suit in equity to reform a deed so as to make it show the correct boundaries of the tract of land, which were incorrectly stated in the deed as originally drawn through the mutual mistake of the parties and of the scrivener, the original grantee in the deed and parties to whom he sold the land and conveyed it by warranty deed are proper parties plaintiff.
2. Where the original vendor of the land died intestate and there was no administrator or personal representative of the decedent at the time the suit was brought, a suit could be maintained against the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kelly v. HamiltonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1910
3Cited by9 opinions
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