Fero v. H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co.

The defendant is the successor of the Oschda Salt & Lumber Company. This bill is filed for the specific performance of a land contract, bearing date the 12th day of April, 1886, between the Oscoda Salt & Lumber Company and the complainant, by the terms of which the company agreed to sell to complainant 40 acres *311of land in township 26 N, range 8 E., for the agreed price of $80, payable in installments. The defense set np is that, by mistake of the parties, a provision in the written contract reserving the timber was omitted, and the answer asks that the written contract be reformed so as to…