Darling v. Jewell
Darling v. Jewell
Opinion of the Court
Complainants filed their bill in the Newaygo circuit court in chancery to set aside two deeds made by them to the defendant of certain premises in that county, on the ground of mistake in the description.
The controversy arises over the question as to what was understood to be the true boundary line at the time the deeds were executed. Complainants were tenants in common of the property, but conveyed by separate deeds. It is claimed that the lands agreed to be conveyed by complainants were bounded on the south by lands of Sarah E. Whitman and H. N. Smith, but that by an error in drafting the deeds, or by the fraud of defendant, Jewell, certain lands now claimed by Sarah E. Whitman and H. N. Smith were included in the deeds so executed by the complainants to the defendant. The court below, after a full hearing upon pleadings and proofs in open court, dismissed the bill, with costs.
Decree is affirmed.
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