Ex parte Howlett v. Garner

Citations

• 50 S.C. 1
• 27 S.E. 533
• 1897 S.C. LEXIS 4

Syllabus

<p>1. Efiumr — Mutual Mistake. — When two lots are sold under one proceeding, and by honest mistake at sale the one is bid off for the other, such a mutual mistake has been made as equity will relieve the parties from.</p> <p>2. Ibid. — Accounting.—A party who buys, under honest mutual mistake, a lot with valuable buildings in place of a vacant lot, must be allowed credit for taxes and necessary expenditures on the property as against rents collected.</p> <p>3. Costs. — Finding as to costs affirmed.</p>