McCollum v. Loveless

Grice, Justice.

The plaintiff was not a party to the deed he seeks to have reformed; but that makes no difference, since he was a privy in estate (Code, § 37-213); and under a well-known principle of law contained in the Code, § 37-215, the allegations of the petition show a state of facts which entitled him to reformation: “If the form of conveyance shall be, by accident or mistake, contrary to the intention of the parties in their contract, equity shall interfere to make it conform thereto.” As was stated in the early case of Wyche v. Greene, 16 Ga. 49, quoted approvingly in Green v.…