Carter v. Ray

1. "It is undoubtedly essential to the validity of a grant that there should be a thing granted, which must be so described as to be capable of being distinguished from other things of the same kind. But it is not necessary that the grant itself should contain such a description as, without the aid of extrinsic testimony, to ascertain precisely what is conveyed."

2. While the description, "my home at 401 North Jefferson Street, Albany, Georgia," furnished a poor description of the property which formed the subject-matter of the contract, it was not on its face so vague for indefiniteness as to…