Doris Virginia McGregor Stribling, Martha Lee McGregor, and Frank Bobbitt McGregor, Jr. v. Millican Dpc Partners, Lp, and Peach Creek Partners, Ltd.

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• holding that a specific metes-and-bounds description controls over a conflicting general acreage call unless it is clear from the deed’s language, read in light of the surrounding circumstances, that the parties intended the general description to control
• explaining that we may look “to the general description for the parties’ intent [when] the specific description [is] defective or incomplete”
• stating that a “call for acreage . . . is the least reliable of all calls in a deed”
• noting that “under certain circumstances [the strip-and-gore doctrine] allows for a presumption that a relatively small and narrow strip of land omitted from the deed is still conveyed”
• suggesting grantor’s indication of capacity is indicia of the trustee’s “intent”
• “We have long held that ‘[a]ll parts of a written instrument must be harmonized and given effect if possible’ ”

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