Mull v. Allen

Wyatt, Justice.

1. This case turns on the quoted description contained in the plaintiff’s deed. We may concede, as is urged by counsel for the plaintiff, that the evidence was sufficient to show that the tract of land sued for is embraced within the land purportedly conveyed by the plaintiff’s deed. Still we think the plaintiff’s evidence insufficient to show title to the property in controversy, for the deed upon which he relies is void because of indefiniteness of description. “The description of the land in a deed must be sufficiently certain to afford means of identification. A deed…