Smith v. Federal Land Bank

R. A. Smith, the owner of certain lands in Jasper county, Miss., applied to and secured from the Federal Land Bank a loan of $3,000 thereon, giving a trust deed to secure same. The land described in the application for the loan, which was not signed by the wife of R. A. Smith, was the N. E. *4 of N. W. XA, and N. E. >4 of N. W.% of N. W. %, 60 acres, in section 10, township 3, range 11, and other lands, the total purporting to be 245 acres. In drafting the deed of trust, however, by error of the scrivener, the land was described as the N. E. i/4 of N. W. y4 of N. W. %, instead of the “N. E. of…