Johnson v. Holmes

Thompson, Chief Justice.

In this quiet title action, appellants appeal from a judgment awarding appellee clear title to a two-acre parcel of land located in the Hog Hammock Subdivision on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Because the deed upon which appellee relies does not contain a valid description of the property, we reverse.

During the 1950’s, Richard J. Reynolds exchanged multiple parcels of land in the Hog Hammock Subdivision on Sapelo Island for equal acreage in the Raccoon Bluff Subdivision. One of these land exchanges concerned the two-acre parcel at issue in this case. Purporting to convey the…