Johnston v. Terry

Fox, Judge:

C. I. Johnston and Savannah H. Johnston, his wife, instituted their suit in the Circuit Court of Mercer County, praying that their deed to W. B. Ramsey, Jr., and Ozella Ramsey, dated August 13, 1936, be reformed to the extent only of excluding therefrom a tract of 7.73 acres of land, known as the “mill lot”, which tract of land was covered by the description contained in said deed, an allegedly conveyed, by mutual mistake of the parties, and through the mistake of the scrivener who prepared the deed aforesaid. From a decree of said court, grant ing the relief prayed for-, as to…