H. Weston Lumber Co. v. Strahan

Citations

• 128 Miss. 54
• 90 So. 452

Syllabus

<p>1. Evidence. Evidence held inadmissible to contradict official map on file in General Land Office.</p> <p>A’ certified copy of the official map on file in the General Land Office of the government survey of lands, which is made up from the government surveyor’s field notes, is the best evidence of what appears thereon; and testimony of a surveyor to the effect that the field notes of the government surveyor of the land in question shows a different survey from that shown on such plat is not admissible to contradict or vary such plat.</p> <p>3. Evidence. Parol testimony held not admissible to show that land on General Land Office plat was intended to be assessed under another description.</p> <p>Where land claimed by virtue of a tax deed which according to the official plat in the General band Office is described as the north half of the Elisha Eott claim, certificate 55, section 38, township 6, range 17, and the assessment and tax deed under which it is claimed describes the said land as the south half of section 6, township 6, range 17 west, and there appears on such official plat of the township in which said lands are situated land answering the later description, parol testimony is not admissible to show that the land described as the north half of the Elisha Eott claim was intended to be assessed and sold under the description of south half, section 6, township 6, range 17, west.</p>