Watford v. . Pierce

This Court has stated and repeatedly approved the rule that when parties with a view to making a deed go upon the land, survey it, and actually run and mark the boundaries and thereupon execute and deliver the deed, intending to convey the land they have surveyed, the title to the surveyed land will pass to the grantee although the description in the deed may be erroneous. The ruling is aptly exemplified in the leading case of Person v. Roundtree, 2 N. C., 378. Roundtree entered a tract of land and ran it out as follows: “Beginning at a tree on the bank of Shocco Creek, running south .poles…