Muerling v. Colsen

Citations

• 79 Wash. 54
• 139 P. 616
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1132

Syllabus

<p>Reformation of Instruments — Description—Mutual Mistake— Evidence — Sufficiency. The description in a deed will be reformed where the parties had with a tape measured off a tract of 13 acres from a forty, the corner established could not be definitely located, the notary, in drawing the deed by metes and bounds, had determined a line “by guess,” and the evidence is clear and convincing that the parties had made a mutual mistake in the description contained in the deed.</p>