Simmons v. Hutchinson

Citations

• 81 Miss. 351

Syllabus

<p>1. Deeds. Registry.- Oonst/ructime notice.</p> <p>The record of a deed charges subsequent purchasers and creditors with constructive notice of its contents, and of the land therein described, but not with what a diligent inquiry into the meaning of its terms of description might have disclosed.</p> <p>2. Same. Ambiguity.</p> <p>A deed intended to convey “ the E. of the N. E. % ” of a section of land, but in which the only description is “the of the N. E. M ” of the section, is void for uncertainty, and its record does not charge a subsequent purchaser, who has not seen the deed or its record, with constructive notice of the intention of the parties to the instrument.</p>