Hopkins v. Williams

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The trial Court was asked to reform a deed by which Alice V. Hopkins conveyed to J. L. Williams Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 23 and 24, Block Two, Yimy Ridge.

Mrs. Hopkins, (Alice Smith before her marriage) bought Lots 1 to 10, inclusive, a,nd Lots 23 and 24, in 1942. At trial she admitted that Lots 23 and 24 were properly conveyed to Williams, but in substantiation of her allegations of mutual mistake asserted that ". . . We had ten lots, and [Williams] got the east half and I got the west half.” She also stated that shortly before the deed was made she had started…