Schneider v. Swartele

This is a partition action in which an answering defendant has interposed a counterclaim, praying for the reformation of a deed given by plaintiff’s ancestor to him, upon the ground that it omitted the transfer of the premises which are the subject of the action by mutual mistake.

It appears that on May 24, 1890, the Point Pleasant Company, Limited, a corporation in which Anthony J. Schneider, plaintiff’s ancestor (hereinafter called Schneider), and answering defendant Weible (hereinafter called Weible), were stockholders and directors, was the owner of a tract of land bordering on Irondequoit…