Rawson v. Brosnan

Jenkins, Justice.

This was an equitable proceeding for partition, injunction, and receiver, by the holder of a security deed and a sheriff’s deed after foreclosure, covering an undivided half interest in realty, against the grantor of the security deed and a subsequent grantee holding a junior security deed, who together owned *625the other half interest. There was but one issue, and this was raised by the plea of the two defendants, to wit, whether by a mutual mistake the plaintiff’s security deed of the half interest in 406% acres more or less covered 10 acres “immediately around [a] mill-site…