Derby Savings Bank v. Oliwa

Opinion

O’CONNELL, C. J.

The defendant appeals from the trial court’s judgment reforming his mortgage deed and granting strict foreclosure. The record discloses that on March 30, 1988, the defendant executed a mortgage *603deed and note to the plaintiff. Due to a mistake, the mortgage deed contained a description of the wrong property. The trial court granted reformation of the mortgage deed so that it described the property that the parties had intended it to cover. Thereafter, the trial court granted strict foreclosure of the reformed mortgage. The defendant claims that the trial court abused its…