Jordan v. W. C. Griffin Land Co.

Citations

• 133 Miss. 78
• 97 So. 513
• 1923 Miss. LEXIS 115

Syllabus

<p>Evidence. Surrounding facts admissible to show error, where tract book and patent conflict as to lands conveyed.</p> <p>In a contest affecting titles to lands derived through the state, where one party introduces entries on a tract booh made by the secretary of state under the acts with reference to swamp and overflowed lands, to show a grant from the state, and where the other offers the original patent, executed hy the governor and secretary of state to such entryman, and these records are conflicting and contradictory, the court may receive in evidence and consider all the surrounding facts existing at the time, if available, and from all the evidence so introduced may determine where the mistake or error was made. The facts in evidence in the present case considered, and show that the error was made by the secretary of state in making the entries on the tract hook, and that the patent shows the correct land granted by the state.</p>