Murray v. Laugsand

Defendants appeal from a judgment granting plaintiffs’ claim for reformation of a deed. Most prominently, defendants assign error to the trial court’s conclusion that plaintiffs’ negligence in failing to detect an unacceptable provision in the deed before closing the parties’ transaction was insufficient to preclude reformation based on plaintiffs’ unilateral mistake. Defendants also assign error to the trial court’s award of attorney fees to plaintiffs. Plaintiffs cross-appeal, assigning error to the trial court’s dismissal of their claim for specific performance of a settlement agreement…