Althaus v. Bassett

CLAY, Commissioner.

This suit was instituted to correct an alleged mutual mistake in a deed description, and the Chancellor adjudged that the deed (and certain other instruments) be reformed. The controversy is not between the original parties to the deed, but between the original grantor and a subsequent purchaser of the property.

In 1944 one Bassett sold and conveyed to one Huff a mill site and lumber yard in the City of Monticello. The property was surveyed and the surveyor’s description was written into the deed. Approximately nine months later Huff conveyed the land, by the same…