Masterson v. Munro

Citations

• 105 Cal. 431
• 38 P. 1106
• 1895 Cal. LEXIS 676

Syllabus

<p>Deed—Description of Property—Metes and Bounds — Number upon Official Map.—If a party purchases a numbered block of land according to the official map of a city, and his purchase is so described in the deed, a further description of the block by metes and bounds, or courses and distances, is subordinate to the description of the block by its number upon the map, and must give way to the number in case of conflict.</p> <p>Id. — Sale of Lots at Auction— Reference to Recorded Map—Conflicting Description.—Where the owners of a lot, for the purpose of selling the same to advantage, make a plan or map of the lot, subdividing the same into smaller lots numbered consecutively, and caused this map to be filed in the office of the county recorder, the purchasers at auction sale of the lots, which are sold by reference to the recorded map, take title to their lots by the number upon the map, which will control an erroneous description by metes and bounds, causing an apparent lap of one lot upon another.</p>