Hazlett v. Bryant

As this petition for certiorari is presented to us the only question involved is whether or not, under the facts and circumstances of this particular case, the Chancellor should have decreed reformation of a deed of gift which, by mistake of the lawyer drawing the deed, contained an erroneous description of a certain tract of land.

The original bill, as several times amended, alleges that the Complainants, as the surviving heirs at law and next of kin, of Mary Lou Hazlett Bryant, who died September 13, 1947, are the owners of a tract of land in Lincoln County, lying in the 9th Civil District,…