Snyder v. Peterson

Webster, A.C.J.

Ali and Eugene Peterson, wife and husband (hereinafter Peterson), appeal an order of the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of Helen Snyder, Dona Best and George Malvern Keller (Jr.) (hereinafter Snyder). The trial court found that a deed, which inadvertently omitted the legal description of the property, complied with the statute of frauds since it could be reformed due to a scrivener's error under the doctrine of mutual mistake. Finding no error, we affirm.

Facts

In 1981 George M. Keller, Sr. (hereinafter grantor) executed and delivered a deed which conveyed his…