Davidson v. Lane

OPINION

WILLIAM H. INMAN, Special Judge.

The purely equitable relief of reformation of a written instrument being denied them, appellants seek review of the judgment which is predicated on a legal conclusion that mutuality of mistake must always appear as a prerequisite to the reformation. The assignments of error are directed to this conclusion.

Appellants are the heirs at law of B. C. Davidson, who executed, with his wife, a deed in 1971 to the Valley View Missionary Baptist Church conveying .16 acre. It is this deed which appellants seek to have reformed. They allege that the grantors…