Wise v. Latimer

In 1939, the defendant, Tom Wise, agreed with Willie Jones, the then owner of lot 1 of 18-3-13 in Atoka county, to purchase the northwest ten acres of said lot. Accordingly, a deed was executed, delivered and recorded describing the land to be conveyed as the “Northwest Quarter” of said lot 1, but by mistake the deed described it as being in range 11 instead of in range 13. It did not specify the number of acres. Instead of having the land surveyed, the parties stepped off ten acres in the northwest corner of lot 1. The following year, Wise erected improvements near the east line of the…