Holloman v. Davis

The ruling of Judge Williams that the mortgage and deed which Elsie Mae Holloman offered as evidence of her title to a one-half undivided interest in the lands described in the petition for partition were insufficient for this purpose, we think, should be upheld. The description in these instruments is insufficient to identify and make certain the land intended to be conveyed, nor is it sufficient to be aided by parol testimony to fit it to the two separate tracts of land described in the petition. The land is described in the deed to Sallie Holloman and in the petition as two separate and…