Doris Virginia McGregor Stribling, Martha Lee McGregor, and Frank Bobbitt McGregor, Jr. v. Millican Dpc Partners, Lp, and Peach Creek Partners, Ltd.

When the metes-and-bounds description in a deed conflicts with another, more general, description in the deed, which controls? In this boundary-dispute case, the court of appeals sided with the general description. But, because the metes-and-bounds description better indicates the parties’ intent, and because the court of appeals’ approach creates uncertainty in land title whenever a deed’s general and specific descriptions differ, we reverse.

Millican 1 and the McGregors 2 are adjacent landowners. They dispute ownership of a 34.28-acre tract (the “Tract”) in a heavily wooded area in Brazos…