Dempsey v. Merchants National Bank

I could agree with the majority if J & J Plumbing Company was adversely affected by the substitution of the lot correctly described for the lot incorrectly described. But it was not. In fact the correction benefitted J & J Plumbing because it, like the other materialmen, was placing materials on the lot to which the McGowans had no legal title and, but for the correction, its lien would have been worthless. Katterjohn Concrete Products v. Coffman, 264 Ark. 503, 573 S.W.2d 306 (1978). The erroneous description, by metes and bounds, described the property as:

Commencing at the Southeast corner…