Pearl Township v. Thorp

The object of this action is to obtain relief in equity from the consequences of a mutual mistake by which an artesian well, costing the plaintiff township about $2,300, .was put down on land supposably its own, but in fact belonging to the defendant Nelson, who immediately thereafter sold and transferred the same to his codefendant Thorp.. The action was dismissed as to Nelson, and, by the judgment appealed from, Thorp is required to reimburse the township for the well, or convey to it, for a valuable consideration and within a reasonable time, one-half acre of ground upon which the same is…