Jim Walter Homes, Inc. v. Phifer

These appeals are from judgments for the defendants in two cases which were consolidated for trial. The plaintiffs, Jim Walter Homes, Inc., and Mid-States Homes, Inc., sought reformation of certain instruments of title on the ground of mutual mistake. After a hearing ore tenus, the trial court denied the relief prayed for and plaintiffs appealed. We affirm.

It appears that the two sets of defendants, Willie Joe Fleeton and his wife Mary Fleeton, and Joe Fleeton and his wife Lucy Fleeton, dealt with Jim Walter Homes whereby Jim Walter Homes was to build each couple a house. Each set of…