Gibson v. Jackson

Citations

• 86 Kan. 38
• 119 P. 378
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 176

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Tax Deed — Recitals—Clerical Error. A tax deed of record more than five years correctly stated the separate payments made at the tax sale for each of the lots included, also the correct aggregate thereof. The subsequent payments on account of each lot were also correctly stated, the total of which correctly added would be $227.35. The granting clause recited that for and in consideration of $213.95 “due as • aforesaid,” “to the Treasurer paid as aforesaid,” the -conveyance was ma'de. Held, that the understatement of the aggregate should be regarded as a clerical error and was controlled by the previous statements and recitals, and did not avoid the deed.</p>