Steger v. Seabaugh

The suit is in equity to reform on the ground of mutual mistake a deed executed by C. C. Seabaugh to his wife, Hannah, both deceased. There were no children by their marriage, but both had been married before and the contest is between their respective heirs through these former marriages. The judgment below was for defendants.

Mr. Seabaugh owned a 120 acre farm in Bollinger County, shaped like an inverted and reversed letter L. The west 40 acres, on which the house and barn were located, was described as the NE % of the NE % of Sec. 31, Tp. 33, Eg. 10. This tract lay immediately west of the…