Chavis v. Henry

It occurs to me that the error in the majority opinion becomes apparent once the facts there recited are clearly understood. They are these. Two tracts of land in the west half, southwest quarter of section 18 were assessed for the taxes of 1932. described as follows: Part west fractional half southwest quarter; fractional west half, southwest quarter.

These two descriptions, together, were intended to describe the fractional west half, southwest quarter, the combined acreage of the two descriptions being 114.92 acres, the first containing 35 acres and the second 79.92 acres. Neither…