Vanderford v. Kettelle

This is a bill in equity brought by the surviving grantee under a deed in joint tenancy against the grantors for the reformation of that deed on the ground of a mutual mistake of fact. It was heard in the superior court on bill, answer and proof, and resulted in the entry of a decree granting the prayer of the bill. From such decree the respondents have appealed to this court.

The object of the bill is to have the deed reformed so as to include therein a right-angled triangular piece of land, hereinafter more definitely identified, along the easterly line of the premises described in the deed.…