Peck v. Arehart

This suit was commenced by petition for partition, but by a subsequent amendment the petition charged that a mistake had been made in certain conveyances, and prayed a rectification of the mistake.

The court below found the proof of mistake insufficient, and decreed simply a partition of the property that was unaffected by the alleged mistake, and the complainant brings the record here by appeal.

The complainant, on the 3d of April, 1868, conveyed to one John G. Hicks certain real estate, by the following description : “ All the right, title, interest, claim and demand which the said party of…