Peel v. . Calais

The particular description in the Samuel Peel deed, as it relates to the land in controversy, is patently defective. Peel v. Calais, 223 N. C., 368. There are two lines which may be fitted to the land in controversy but there is no attempt to close the calls so as to embrace the same. The defendants must resort to the general description “a certain tract of land in Beaufort County, N. 0., adjoining the land of John Peel, Griffin and others.” Hence the exceptions entered by plaintiffs and presented on this appeal challenge the sufficiency of the evidence aliunde to support the verdict on the…