Jones v. Lake
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the First District Court, Parish of Caddo. Taylory J. 1. A mortgage given on a tract of land is sufficiently descriptive if it is reaso- ably accurate and full in itself so as to inform the public what property is covered by it.
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APPEAL from the First District Court, Parish of Caddo. Taylory J. 1. A mortgage given on a tract of land is sufficiently descriptive if it is reaso- ably accurate and full in itself so as to inform the public what property is covered by it. (24 An. 519, Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana vs. Mason et al.) 2. A mortgage or deed that describes a tract of land as being east and north of a certain tract of land, it being all the land now owned by the mortgagor in said tract, is good and sufficient and embraces all of the land in said tract or block. 3. When the intent of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Petitioner, alleging ownership and possession, in good faith, of the following described real property, viz.: “ All that portion of lot, or block, sixty-eight (68), of the city of Shreveport, north and east of Bosworth’s boundary line,” owned by Mrs. M. D. O. Oane, in 1874; and that he acquired the same at sheriff’s sale made in 1886, in the foreclosure of a special mortgage executed by Mrs. Cane, in favor of one Leavenworth, in 1874, and in the proeesverbal whereof said property is described as “all of lot or block sixty-eight (68), north…
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