Snook v. Shaw

By their complaint in chancery filed on December 21, 1939, plaintiffs sought to secure 'the correction and reformation of the assignment appearing upon a certain sheriff’s certificate of purchase together with the reformation and correction of a sheriff’s deed which had been issued under said certificate. In addition to this relief, plaintiffs also asked to be given possession of the premises described in said sheriff’s deed.

Defendants first filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, or, in the alternative, to make it more specific, and upon the denial of this motion filed their answer to the…