Anderson v. Juanita Coal & Coke Co.

This action was brought by the Juanita Coal & Coke Company, a corporation, defendant in error, against plaintiffs in error and others, to obtain a reformation of a deed. The trial court granted the reformation, and to that decree this writ of error is prosecuted.

The deed involved was made by James M. Freeman, October 31, 1898, to the Fire Mountain Canal Company, a mutual ditch corporation, and was recorded November 17, 1898. It is in the usual form of a warranty deed. The deed grants and conveys “a right of way 50 feet in width across any portion” of a certain parcel of land in Delta county,…