Rojas v. Whittington

SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendants, Mack C. Whittington, Harry S. Kaufman Jr. and W. Richard White, have appealed from a judgment ordering the reformation of an act of sale dated July 5, 1966, before William J. White, Notary Public, in which plaintiffs sold their interest in a large 6400 acre tract of land located in Jefferson and Plaquemines Parishes to defendants. The issue is whether the parties to that act by mutual error or mistake included a naked ownership of an interest which was equivalent to 33 acres.

The 6400 acres were owned by Rojas-Adams Corporation until 19S2 when the corporation was…