Goff v. Avent
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from Chancery Court of 'George County. Hon. W. M. Denny, Jr., Chancellor. Suit by W. H. Goff against ft. C.' Avent.f o remove cloud on title. From an unfavorable decree» complainant appeals. We contend that whatever description is used in a deed, if the land is pointed out with such particularity of designation, that a surveyor can take the description given in the deed and locate the land, the description is good.
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Appeal from Chancery Court of 'George County. Hon. W. M. Denny, Jr., Chancellor. Suit by W. H. Goff against ft. C.' Avent.f o remove cloud on title. From an unfavorable decree» complainant appeals. We contend that whatever description is used in a deed, if the land is pointed out with such particularity of designation, that a surveyor can take the description given in the deed and locate the land, the description is good. To support this view, we submit the following: “Wherever the description given in a deed is imperfect, yet sufficient to point inquiry to the true locality and boundary of…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This is an appeal to settle the principles of the case from a decree overruling demurrer to a bill of complaint. The suit was instituted under section '550. Code of 1906 (section 307. Hemingway’s Code!, bv the apio'ellant, who will hereinafter be designated as the complainant, against the appellee, who will hereinafter be designated' as the defendant, to cancel the claim of the defendant to certain land in section 42, townslnhr 1 south, range 8 west, as a cloud on complainant’s title thereto.
It appears from the bill of complaint that when the territory now composing the county of George was1…
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