McMurray v. Standley

The general nature of the case is stated in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals. 297 S. W. 557. It was held that the description in the deed there considered was void for uncertainty, if that ruling be correct the assignments here are either immaterial or not well laid.

The basic matter is one of latent ambiguity ; and it must be determined upon the assumption that the parties contracted with reference to the real condition of the property, or “its actual state,” since there is lack of evidence to the contrary, and with application of the doctrine that falsa demonstratio non nocet.…