Jenkins v. Adcock

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Appellant Elizabeth Jenkins, joined by her husband, brought this suit to cancel or reform an instrument which was in form of a deed conveying plaintiff’s interest in a tract of 200 acres of land to her sister, Mrs. Adcock, the appellee, but which was alleged in the petition to have been intended to operate simply as a will, and to devise to appellee such interest in the land as plaintiff might have remaining undisposed of at her death.

The petition charged, that by mutual mistake of herself and her sister, as well as of the draughtsman of the paper, it was made to…