Smith v. Matthews

This case was affirmed on a former hearing, and a rehearing granted. The only question in the case is as to the sufficiency of the complaint. The complaint seems to have been regarded and. treated by the parties, by the court below, and by this court on the former hearing, as one to correct a mistake in a deed conveying real estate. So treated, the complaint was clearly bad, on the grounds stated in the former opinion. But on further consideration, and by sorting out a few simple and proper allegations from a mass of irrelevant and surplus matter that never should have been in it, and which…