Lee v. McDonald

The defendants except and assign as error the refusal of the court to charge the jury in substance as follows: That a particular description in a deed by metes and bounds which is unambiguous, will control over a reference to lots when there is a discrepancy or ambiguity between the two descriptions.

The intent of a grantor in a deed, like that of a testator in a will, must be gathered from its four corners, and it is the duty of the court to decide as a matter of law, what the boundaries are in a deed, and for the jury to determine where they are actually located. Gudger v. White, 141 N.C.…