Hoggett v. Wright

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was filed by appellants, Pierce A. Hoggett and wife, Marguerite Hoggett, to reform and correct the field notes in their deed of September 20, 1950, which purported to convey a forty-acre tract of land to Howell Wright. Appellants alleged that the description in the deed erroneously conveyed more than forty acres. In the alternative appellants sued in trespass to try title to recover 10.97 acres. Wright, on *692April 17, 1959, conveyed twenty acres out of the forty-acre tract to Joe H. Parker, and on March 23, 1960, Parker conveyed 17.6 acres of this land to William H.…