State Highway Commission v. Collins

Mrs. Collins executed a deed to the Highway Commission to eight-tenths of an acre of land in Grenada County. At her instance in this proceeding, the deed was reformed so as to include only four-tenths of an acre, and the Commission appeals.

The reformation was based upon an oral agreement between McKinnon, representing the Commission, and Mrs. Collins. The Commission makes a number of contentions on this appeal but it is necessary that we decide only one of them, and that is whether McKinnon had the authority to make the agreement on which the reformation is based, conceding, that he made it.

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