Copeland v. Warren

The action at law was duly transferred to the equity docket, and the pleadings were shaped accordingly. Stover v. Hill, 208 Ala. 575, 94 So. 826.

The bill sought reformation of a conveyance of land because of mutual mistake so as to describe the lands sold to defendant’s 'grantor, and the establishment of a division line. The present owner and his original grantor, the grantee in complainant’s conveyance, are proper parties respondent. The persons having the legal title to the subject-matter must be made parties to such a bill. Hodge v. Joy, 207 Ala. 198, 92 So. 171.

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