Boyd v. . Campbell

The deed is not invalidated by the clause in which the grantee purports to convey to himself. In every conveyance of land there must be a grantor, a grantee, and a thing granted. The grantor cannot make bimself the grantee; but W. J. G. B. Boyd, wbo signed the deed, is named as tbe grantor, and with, the exception o£ one inadvertence the plaintiff is referred to as the grantee. The error is clerical and the objection must be resolved against the appellant under the principle stated in Berry v. Cedar Works, 184 N. C., 187. See, also, Yates v. Ins. Co., 173 N. C., 473.

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