Kahanek v. Kahanek

GRAVES, Justice.

“Appellant filed suit on February 6, 1945, to reform a deed he had executed on the 25th of November, 1929, in favor of ap-pellee. He alleged an agreement that he was to reserve one-half of the royalties on all minerals under the tract of 88.88 acres of land in Lavaca County, Texas, covered by the deed. The alleged grounds for reformation were: (1) mutual mistake, or, in the alternative, (2) mistake on his part, and fraud on the part of appellee, in failing to bring home to him knowledge of such alleged mistake.

“Appellee pleaded, among other things, general denial and the…