SWC Baseline & Crismon Investors, L.L.C. v. Augusta Ranch Ltd. Partnership

OPINION

JOHNSEN, Judge.

¶ 1 In 1992 a corporate investor arranged to acquire more than a thousand acres of real estate from a partnership of which it had become the sole partner. By mistake, the investor prepared and recorded a warranty deed that omitted a critical quarter-acre at the center of a commercial intersection. When the mistake was discovered years later, a firestorm of litigation ensued among the investor’s successor and other parties claiming an interest in the omitted property. In this appeal, we take up issues of reformation, slander of title, trespass and conversion as they may…