Reed v. Reed

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

This action was tried on an amended petition alleging the plaintiff purchased the land in controversy from W. B. North. It is alleged that he paid the full consideration for the transfer but that by an error of the scrivener the name of Ruben Reed as grantee was inserted instead of that of J. R. Reed and that this mistake was not discovered until after the death of Ruben Reed. Plaintiff asks that the deed be reformed to correct the mistake and that a resulting trust be declared in his favor.

There is no substantial dispute in…