Case ID: mo_34/html/0148-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bates, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Aaron P. Abbott, Respondent, v. David S. Dunivin, Appellant.
    
      Specific Performance — Mistake.—In a suit for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, a mistake in the description may be pleaded and proved by either party. •
    
      
      Practice — Judgment.—Upon a judgment by default, the relief granted by the judgment must accord with that prayed in the petition. (K. C. 1855, p. 1280, § 12.j
    
      Appeal from Phelps Circuit Court.
    
   Bates, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit for the specific performance of an obligation for the conveyance of land. The petition described the land as “ the southwest half of the south-east quarter of section No. 7, in township No. 37 north, of range 7 west, containing forty acres.” The judgment passed the title to “ the south half of the southeast quarter of section number seven, township number thirty-seven north, of range seven west, containing forty acres. The. judgment is not in accordance with the petition. This is an equitable proceeding, in which a mistake in the description may be pleaded and proved by either party.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with leave to both parties to file amended pleadings.

Judges Bay and Dryden concur.