Carter v. Leonard

Pound, C.

In 1891 one Josephine Clinton and her husband executed a mortgage to Benjamin A. Gibson upon a tract of 18 acres in the northeast quarter of section 2, township 10 north, range 11, in Cass county. The tract was described by metes and bounds. There was an error in the description in that the starting point was stated to be a point 40 rods south of the northwest corner of said section, which would place the tract in the northwest and not the northeast, quarter, wherein the description stated that it lay. This error Avas due to the omission of the word “quarter” before the word…