Otto v. L. L. Coryell & Son

This is an equity action, brought to reform or cancel a written instrument, and for an accounting. After trial in the district court, a decree was entered, finding that the plaintiff was not entitled to the relief asked for in his petition, and the action was therefore dismissed, from which the plaintiff appealed.

*499The amended petition with the exhibits attached makes up 40 pages of the transcript, and is too long to be set out at length in this opinion. It is charged therein that the attorney for L. L. Coryell & Son drafted a written instrument which purported to evidence an oral agreement…