Perry v. . Scott

This is a special proceeding for partition, begun in the Superior Court of Jones County, and tried at Fall Term, 1890 (upon issues joined before the Clerk), Armfteld, J., presiding. The defendant claimed under deed made by a Sheriff on sale under execution, in which the land was described as “lying and being in the county of Jones, bounded as follows,'to-wit: On the south side of the Trent river, adjoining the lands of Colgrove, McDaniel and others, containing three hundred and sixty acres, more or less.” The plaintiff insisted that the description in this deed was so vague and uncertain that…