Court Opinion

ID: 9857941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:09:41.764491+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:00:20.235814
License: Public Domain

On Appellee’s Motion for Rehearing.
PRICE, Chief Justice.
Careful and painstaking consideration has been given to appellee’s motion for a re-hearing herein. The deed in question was executed by appellee in fulfillment of a written contract. The description in the deed substantially conformed to the description in the contract. The written contract covered all of lot 12.
In order to establish a right to reform this deed it is incumbent on appellee to establish first, that the true contract was that defendants were to buy and plaintiff to sell only a part of said lot 12; second, that through mutual mistake the property was described in the contract and conveyance as all of lot 12 instead of only a portion thereof. Pegues v. Dilworth, 134 Tex. 169, 132 S.W.2d 582.
The written contract evidences the legal right of the appellant to all of said lot 12. Lacking in the record is any evidence that at the time Chanoux signed the contract he thought he was getting less than all of lot 12. A mere unexecuted intention to waive rights under the contract on the part of said appellant would not entitle appellee to reformation of this instrument and recovery of land theretofore conveyed to appellant. The relevant time of the mistake was on the making of the contract.
The motion for rehearing is in all things overruled.