Humble v. St. John

HONOEABLE C. W. POMEEOY, District Judge,

sitting in place of ME. JUSTICE GALEN, absent' on account of illness, delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was brought to reform a deed on the ground of mutual mistake. It is alleged in the complaint that it was the intention of the parties in pursuance of a bond for a deed running to the plaintiff, Miller Humble, alone, that the deed should be made to the plaintiff as the sole grantee, but, due to the mistake and inadvertence of the scrivener and without the knowledge of the parties, it was made to “Miller Humble and wife.” After trial…