Scott v. Thomas

The decree appealed from required reformation of the description of lands mortgaged, and a foreclosure was ordered to enforce payment of the debt secured thereby.

The general rule as to erroneous description of property as contained in a mortgage is stated in 27 Cyc. p. 1209, as follows:

“If the description of the property in a mortgage wholly fails to identify that intended to be incumbered, or by mistake is so expresed as to be applicable only to a different tract or lot, so that it could not be enforced without invoking the aid of a court of equity to reform it, the record of it is not…