Dimond v. Barlow

This is a bill in equity for reformation of a deed on the ground of mutual mistake. The cause is here on the respondents’ appeal from a final decree granting such relief.

The complainants are Royal W. Dimond and Ruth M. Dimond, his wife, and Hugh P. Breen and Julia G. Breen, his wife. The respondents are Alice G. M. Barlow, her brother Hugh J. Murphy, and her sisters Margaret P. Murphy and Hannah M. Kiernan. The controversy between the parties arises out of two deeds of adjacent lots of land made by complainants Dimond. By the first deed executed April 25, 1949 they conveyed to the Breens the…