Reid v. Slocum

Citations

• 34 Wash. 173
• 75 P. 629
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 330

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser — Specific Performance of Contract to Convey — Defenses—Mutuai Mistake Including Land Not Owned — Evidence—Sufficiency. In an action for the specific performance of a contract to sell a tract of land purchased for the timber tbereon, in which the defendants claim that ten acres previously sold by them to another, and which was cleared land and occupied, was included by mutual mistake, findings for the defendant will not be disturbed where the plaintiff testifies that he was familiar with the land, knew of the other purchaser’s house and improvements, and did not think at the time that he was getting the house and land around it.</p>