Johnson v. Bowlware

Appeal from Carroll Circuit Court. — IIon. W. W. Eucker, Judge. The sheriff’s deed under which plaintiff claims, does not describe part of the land claimed in the petition and for which judgment was rendered, to wit: The fifteen acre tract. The deed, in describing the land by metes and bounds, closes the description by using these words: “Thence west” twenty rods to the place of beginning. It should have said thence east twenty rods to place of beginning. Ve are aware of the doctrine well established in this court that a description by metes, bounds, distances and amounts may be controlled by…