Puryear v. Smith

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

Bill to quiet title to land and this appeal involves only the sufficiency of the description of the land as set out in the bill of complaint.

We are in accord with the contention of appellant’s counsel that greater particularity is required in the description of land in complaints and judgments and decrees than in deeds and that judgments and decrees should he so certain as to enable an officer in executing the judgment or decree to do so without the exercise of a discretion. Hughes v. Allen, 229 Ala. 467, 158 So. 307. But this rule does not exclude resort by the…