Mills v. Boyd Lumber Co.

The judgment of the trial court overruling the demurrers filed by the defendants to the plaintiff’s petition was reversed by the Supreme Court. See Boyd Lumber Co. v. Mills, 146 Ga. 794 (92 S. E. 534). The allegations of the petition as it then stood are fully set out in the report of that case. It was there decided that the deed executed in blank by the plaintiff and delivered to the defendants’ agent, with parol authority to him to fill in the description, was void for lack of a subject-matter upon which the deed could operate, but that the deed could be ratified by a subsequent writing…