Tram Lumber Co. v. Hancock

Acker, Judge.

Appellant, the Tram Lumber Company, claimed the land in controversy under a deed from the collector of taxes, purporting to have been executed in pursuance of a sale of the land made for non-payment of taxes assessed against it. This deed, when offered in evidence, was excluded on objection of appellees, and this is assigned as error. The land attempted to be conveyed thereby is described as thirty-seven hundred and eighty-eight acres of the Martin Flores league.

As has been repeatedly decided by this court, such a deed is void for uncertainty and insufficiency of description of…