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73 N.H. 515

63 A 399

Willson v. Legro

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided March 6, 1906

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1906-03-06

Bill in Equity, for the reformation of the description of land conveyed from the defendants to the plaintiffs, in connection with an action at law for the recovery of a portion of the purchase price. Transferred from the September term, 1905, of the superior court by Chamberlin, J. Facts agreed. The deed purported to convey several tracts of woodland.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1909

1 state decisions

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Decided 1906-03-06

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Walkee, J.

¶1 It does not appear but that the action at law affords the plaintiffs a plain and adequate remedy for all recoverable damages they have sustained in consequence of the duplicated description of a part of the granted premises. Having obtained a deed which by inadvertence describes one part of the land twice, it is not perceived how the plaintiffs’ position would be improved by a decree in equity reforming the description in the deed by striking out the superfluous part thereof. If the deed conveys to them the land they bought, the fact that it describes the land more than once is immaterial, so far as they are concerned. Such a decree would obviously be unnecessary and legally useless.

¶2 Case discharged.

All concurred.
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